Black women Quotes · Page 2

“I am a flower breaking ground.”

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

— Pam Grier

I think Black women should come together.

— Angela Stanton-King

“Black Women save lives”

— Malebo Sephodi

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

— Tupac Shakur

The only Black woman I ever loved is my mama.

— Taye Diggs

You can fall, but you can rise also.

— Angelique Kidjo

“Melanin Fiercely Poppin’ on Purpose.”

— Stephanie Lahart

“Black women are rarely allowed their femininity.”

— Roxane Gay

“Friedan did not include black women in her vision. Black”

— Rebecca Traister

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

— Maya Angelou

I'm thankful that l I have an amazing family, black women that raised me.

— LeToya Luckett

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

— Jessica Williams

“STRONG” because that is what black women are supposed to be in America.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

— Iyanla Vanzant

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

— Rosa Parks

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never…

— Misty Copeland

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy…

— Hill Harper

Why when a so g comes on. The white women saids Oh my god thats my song. And the Black women says…

— Jamario Jackson

“For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will…

— Audre Lorde

I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our…

— Bell Hooks

The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

— Eldridge Cleaver

To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation…

— Nicole Byer

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and…

— Bessie Coleman

Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black…

— Amandla Stenberg

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

No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I…

— Faith Ringgold

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps…

— Niecy Nash

For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from…

— Laphonza Butler

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

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in…

— Queen Latifah

I was a mixed black girl existing in a westernized Hawaiian culture where petite Asian women were the ideal, in a white…

— Janet Mock

“I write for... I wish I could write purely for fun – I wish I could wake up in the morning and…

— Malebo Sephodi

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…

— Pat Conroy

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at…

— Dee Rees

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not. One type of black woman can exist, but…

— Morgan Parker

“I am a Black woman, therefore, I am destined to protect myself. Our men have wandered too far to beckon. They are…

— Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant

I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my…

— Kola Boof

The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about…

— Sanaa Lathan

My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high…

— Ayesha Curry