Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women,"… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 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
“Black women were beautifully created at birth. We were blessed with melanin in our skin, which makes us Exquisitely Beautiful. From the… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of… — Morgan Parker 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
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
Does being practical mean we prop up a legal system that's unfair, that bears its weight down on black men and black… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many resumes we get from business schools across the country from black women and black men and… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
“That’s how it gonna be all your life,” Julia Cater told her son, and she was preaching old black wisdom, for through… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it,… — Mary Church Terrell Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps… — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“Stay away from any place where you can run into police—that’s the advice I give to you and to all young black… — Imbolo Mbue Copy Share Image
Even in reality shows, how they look at black women like they're the monsters - snatching wigs, and weaves and wigs, weaves… — Marsai Martin Copy Share Image
My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Our society's framework for black women reads as such: strong, indignant and fiercely independent with endless resilience; a myriad of expectations entirely… — Jerrika Hinton Copy Share Image
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have… — Johnnetta B. Cole 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 would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
Many think, because your skins are tinged with a sable hue, that you are an inferior race of beings; but God does… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve -… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
If you have a march that's entirely white women or a march that maybe is entirely black women, it's going inspire those… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
