Black women Quotes · Page 4

“We are strong Black Women. We may not want to be, but when life calls, we got no choice”

— Malebo Sephodi

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

— Bell Hooks

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

— T. D. Jakes

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

— Alfre Woodard

I like the idea of having historical films about black women who are just having fun.

— Nia DaCosta

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

— Naomi Campbell

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent thepower my freedom requires ...

— Zuna Zorda

Black women calls black men brothers and yet the hook up with them !!

— Noon Adnan

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

— Frances M. Beal

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I…

— Mark Bradford

I've been having a 20-plus year conversation with black women, starting with 'Girlfriends,' moving through 'The Game,' 'Being Mary Jane,' even 'Sparkle.'

— Mara Brock Akil

I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted…

— Morgan Parker

“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ... No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations…

— Malebo Sephodi

Let’s just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them…

— Taye Diggs

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

— Uzo Aduba

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have…

— Dorothy Height

From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of…

— Patricia Hill Collins

If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women,"…

— Jenji Kohan

Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have…

— Bryan Fischer

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for…

— Gerda Lerner

Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one…

— Zohran Mamdani

“We stared at each other in silence until she looked away. I won. I always won, because I had my daddy’s eyes…

— Jaguar Jonez

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for…

— Angela Davis

“And while the black women are the most hidden of the mathematicians who worked at the NACA, the National Advisory Committee for…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body…

— Skye Townsend

You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery…

— Lenny Bruce

“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African.…

— idowu koyenikan

“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for…

— Ann Petry

“Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown…

— Aberjhani

In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly…

— Bell Hooks

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

— Anthea Butler

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

— Artie Lange

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

— Robin DiAngelo

You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

— Josephine Baker

“Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.”

— Matthew Desmond

“Well, they asked for it," Essie said. "People should learn not to mess with the Black women.”

— Lara Morgan

I'm trying to be what I want to see more of: Black women onscreen.

— KiKi Layne

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman