Design the life you want to live.

“Pick that chin up and adjust your crown, Queen! Life has its disappointments and challenges, but you’ve got faith, strength, perseverance, and resilience inside…

— Stephanie Lahart

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

— Donna Brazile

All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all…

— Maya Angelou

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career.…

— Lynn Nottage

“Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black girls are exquisite beauty in every shade.…

— Stephanie Lahart

It's important for women to understand that it's bad enough that we don't make dollar-for-dollar what men do, but when you distill that down…

— Nina Turner

The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

— Mae Jemison

“I’m a Queen. My Black is Exquisite Beauty.”

— Stephanie Lahart

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“She is Black Girl Excellence. She is Me.”

— Stephanie Lahart

I was very proud and grateful to be the first African-American woman in the position. I thought it said a lot about our country…

— Condoleezza Rice

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

— Viola Davis

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

— Rosa Parks