Black women Quotes · Page 4

“What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?”

— Malebo Sephodi

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

— Dorothy B. Porter

Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

— Susan L. Taylor

“THE TALENT IS A GIFT BUT THE VIBE IS SOLD SEPARATELY!”

— Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

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

— June Jordan

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

— Maya Angelou

The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman

— Malcolm X

I think most Black women are funny. Whether we get credit or not, we just are; we're hilarious.

— Janelle James

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where…

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

I don't think that not seeing black women in comedy held me back, but I think subconsciously I never really thought that…

— Lolly Adefope

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

— LeToya Luckett

I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that…

— Ava DuVernay

I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know…

— A'Lelia Bundles

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype.…

— Octavia Spencer

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big…

— Tyra Banks

'Moesha' is very strong in my brain. The black women on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' are very strong in my brain.

— Michaela Coel

A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ...…

— Mary Church Terrell

There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a…

— Barack Obama

Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached…

— Ishmael Reed

Allowing the big dogs to create a toll lane for public education, public interest and government programming, and to make it more…

— Maya Wiley

I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American…

— Linda Johnson Rice

The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a…

— Aunjanue Ellis

I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed…

— Kola Boof

I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or…

— Janelle Monae

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to…

— Kola Boof

“Some of my Black sistas don’t know any better, so I’d like to give them some enlightening food-for-thought. Many of them are…

— Stephanie Lahart

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black…

— Marita Golden

“Certain black women faced the triple hurdle—of being abolitionists in a slave society, of being black among white reformers, and of being…

— Howard Zinn

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m…

— Ava DuVernay

“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those…

— Audre Lorde

“When we dare to speak in a liberatory voice, we threaten even those who may initially claim to want our words. In…

— bell hooks

“Some series teach us that ethnic features must be "fixed," by drastic means if necessary. Plastic surgeons with questionable ethics give insecure…

— Jennifer L. Pozner

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

— Dr. Dre

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

— Runoko Rashidi

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

— Chris Rock

Black women in music are always expected to sing R&B or soul: we are always boxed in.

— Bree Runway

Black women, dark skin women are the original beautiful people to me.

— Goldlink

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

— Toni Morrison

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

— Maya Angelou

“Black Girls create magic, so that makes me magical.”

— Stephanie Lahart