Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
There's more to me than just the labels that society wants to place on me or any other Black woman, so I… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
“I truly believe those closest to the pain are closest to the solution, and black women will lead us to the solutions… — The Women's March Organizers Copy Share Image
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
Honestly, I had a very realistic, probably pessimistic outlook at the beginning of my career post-graduation of drama school. In general, I… — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
I was always treated older than I am when I was a kid, so I had to be like, 'No, I'm sweet,'… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of… — Kelela Copy Share Image
As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
“Black folk etymological theory posits that motherfucker was a term developed by the children of enslaved Africans in the United States. According… — H. Sammy Alim and Geneva Smitherman Copy Share Image
It's very necessary, showing the positive aspect of a black father. We see a lot of black women being the head of… — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power. Originally articulated on behalf of black… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
As Black women, there's so much pressure on us to be everything to everyone. We're expected to wear so many different hats,… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being… — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
