Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.” — Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant Copy Share Image
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue. — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women… — Countee Cullen 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
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
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
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
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
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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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
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Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
“Black Girls… Until you get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person gives you, you’ll continue to… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
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