A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ...… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
We have to reach out to younger audiences. They need to see how they can see themselves as black women. — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a… — Megalyn Echikunwoke Copy Share Image
I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable. — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation… — Nicole Byer Copy Share Image
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel,… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . .… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms… — LaTanya Richardson Copy Share Image
“Yet this incarnation of the Black male endangerment narrative does more than ignore women and girls. In a patriarchal society in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We always see strong women. We often see strong black women. We rarely see messy, fragile black women. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman… — Bertice Berry Copy Share Image
I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom. — LeToya Luckett Copy Share Image
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
