I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned… — Oprah Winfrey 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
“The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I know that there is some Black girl out there. So many Black women out there that are watching me right now.… — Doechii Copy Share Image
Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I wanted to express myself using visuals and also celebrate the beauty of black women, travel, and have amazing opportunities. I also… — Khoudia Diop Copy Share Image
We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to… — Michaela Coel 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
In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
Black women are three times as likely to die giving birth or shortly after birth as white women. Black women in the… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
I was in the music industry as Amanda Diva for 10 years but I realized that I had bigger work to do… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous.… — NeNe Leakes Copy Share Image
I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types,… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I come from a proud, Black family, and generations of proud, Black women. So I've always grown up with that special armor,… — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put… — David Harewood 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 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
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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
The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the… — Mamphela Ramphele 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
My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned.… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I talk about a lot is how black women are so often referred to as feisty or sassy or aggressive or difficult… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
You can never have enough reinforcements, resources for black women to thrive in the world. The topic has been addressed a million… — Kelela Copy Share Image
If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and… — Cree Summer Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I… — V. Bozeman Copy Share Image
Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me… — Snoop Dogg 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
As much as you turn on the television and see our beautiful faces, you'd be amazed to see who is not behind… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
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