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

“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

Design the life you want to live.

— Rachel Roy

... 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