My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
People continue to put our league down. It's because we're women; that's the fight. And it's a majority of black women; that's… — Sue Bird Copy Share Image
I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I embrace my darker skin - always have, always will. In addition, I believe black women have always been trailblazers and trendsetters.… — Justine Skye Copy Share Image
I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did… — Taraji P. Henson 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
I'm not particular about makeup, but when I do wear it, I am partial to Fenty. That is what I own. I… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed 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
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
I write about spirituality not so we get strong from within and achieve some state of nirvana and then distance ourselves from… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American… — Linda Johnson Rice Copy Share Image
Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more… — Maya Wiley Copy Share Image
I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I… — Solange Knowles Copy Share Image
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
“Pauline felt uncomfortable with the few black women she met. They were amused by her because she did not straighten her hair.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
I date African-American women. That's all I date. In my family, it was never discussed - but I love black women. Nothing… — Stephen A. Smith 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
I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa Copy Share Image
Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens,… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they've been… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the… — Wilma Rudolph Copy Share Image
Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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