The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“We were the brothers 'holding it down' on the business side of the magazine, but it would have to be the 'sisters,'… — Edward Lewis Copy Share Image
Based on census data from 2019, black women are only paid 61 cents to every dollar that a white man makes. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
I want to be an instrument to help lead the full story of EMILY's List and its relationship to Black women, and… — Laphonza Butler Copy Share Image
I just feel Black women, we get slept on a lot and people don't recognize our greatness in our curls and in… — Ari Lennox Copy Share Image
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women… — Elizabeth Catlett Copy Share Image
I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able… — Julia Mavimbela Copy Share Image
Black women have been screaming about famous predators like R&B singer R. Kelly, who allegedly preys on black girls, for well over… — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women.… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Black women have never embraced feminism. They didn't embrace it in the '50s and '60s; they're not embracing it now. That's not… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts...… — Alesha Dixon Copy Share Image
As Black women, there's so much pressure on us to be everything to everyone. We're expected to wear so many different hats,… — A'ja Wilson Copy Share Image
Black people, if I may, we don't get a lot of opportunities to do a lot of different things outside the norm,… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked… — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Copy Share Image
“My advice to someone like you is to always stay close to the gray area and keep yourself and your family safe.… — Imbolo Mbue Copy Share Image
Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often… — Herb Boyd Copy Share Image
“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer… — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“i think any poem worth its salt, if poems can indeed be salty, should allow the reader to think. this poem is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. — Anonymous 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
“As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.” — Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant Copy Share Image
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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