Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President. — Donna Brazile 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 don't think that not seeing black women in comedy held me back, but I think subconsciously I never really thought that… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where… — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 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
I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know… — A'Lelia Bundles 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
Realize that saying all black men are the same is just as ignorant as saying that all black women are the same.… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I have always been very clear that I sold Essence to Time Warner with the expectation that the magazine would continue to… — Edward Lewis Copy Share Image
As Black women, we go through so much from code switching and putting on a mask just to get in the door.… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
“The actual history of interracial rape - according to FBI statistics - is that, since the 70's, approximately 15,000 to 36,000 white… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free.… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Black women voted against Roy Moore not because they necessarily wanted the other guy; they voted against Roy Moore because they knew… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“Don’t tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don’t tell fat women to put down the fork. Don’t tell underweight men to… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Educated black women are too high maintenance, high strung, and independent—they don’t need men. There is a widening gap between the education… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it.… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
“Audre Lorde once stated, “I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Black women are acting irresponsibly by giving birth to baby after baby out of wedlock. Most of these children are from different… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“Many black women also kept guns within easy reach. But it is important to mention that women & their use of guns… — Charles E. Cobb Copy Share Image
People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of… — Letitia Wright Copy Share Image
The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Each chapter in MissBehave is about navigating life as a black woman and all encounters that led me to espouse feminist ideals” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and… — Patrisse Cullors 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
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
“And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
We are going to do extensive market research because it is hard for black women to go into stores and get clothes… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
The Black woman is the most unprotected, unloved woman on earth...she is the only flower on earth...that grows unwatered. — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. — Evelyn Boyd Granville Copy Share Image
I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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