Color Quote by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

— Patricia Schroeder

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a…

— Margaret Cho

Here's the thing: every office I've run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color.…

— Kamala Harris

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

— Madam C. J. Walker

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

I try to engage women who are thinking about running for office or up-and-coming leaders to embrace the power they do have, and not…

— Laphonza Butler

That's the nightmare for Elizabeth Warren, because I can attack her from the left. I can say, 'Wait a minute, what do you know…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or…

— Hillary Clinton

I'm not a person that really deal in color. I recognize the inequities that certain cultures have to go through. I understand the history…

— Jim Brown

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Once you run and once you win with an unabashed progressive feminist standard, then it becomes easier for everybody else who's running.

— Christine Pelosi