As black women, we're miles behind our white counterparts in being offered the space to create and craft female characters in major… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and… — Mari Evans Copy Share Image
“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists… — Carleen Brice Copy Share Image
Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us. — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a… — Condola Rashad Copy Share Image
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If black lives matter, then why is it that black women are more than five times as likely as a white woman… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
As much as you turn on the television and see our beautiful faces, you'd be amazed to see who is not behind… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
“She was black, too, or rather, a delicious shade of café au lait, and this, we were constantly told, represented progression an… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Shadows of Hope In the quiet neighborhood of Saint-Michel, nestled within the vibrant city of Montreal, lived Maria, a single mother of… — Michella Augusta Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“She was dark-complexioned, with full lips and high cheekbones set gracefully on a smooth face—reminiscent of the beautiful women he admired while… — David L. Wadley Copy Share Image
“Dear Black Women… Save, Invest, and Spend Less. Save because you just never know what will come up. This will save you… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black women's hair is a complicated and skillful thing that you need to know in order to tackle it and make it… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I am shocked. It's upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people.… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and… — Moms Mabley Copy Share Image
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I… — Raheem DeVaughn Copy Share Image
Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
Madam Walker's name gets thrown out as either the savior of black women's hair or she's the evil devil. — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt… — Retta Copy Share Image
