Able Quote by Amandla Stenberg

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been…

— Spike Lee

We're taught to be strong, independent, always handling things our way. But if you do too much, you're the angry Black woman. 'Calm down.'…

— A'ja Wilson

Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don't get…

— Nia DaCosta

I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of…

— Bill Duke

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

— Naomi Campbell

Black people are just constantly immature in their thinking, undisciplined, and we suffer as a people. This is not about race in the sense…

— KRS-One

We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know…

— Susan L. Taylor

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

In the case of a Black woman like myself, the most classic trope of all is that we are angry or we are aggressive.…

— Annamie Paul

If I talk to black students on campus, they're not sympathetic to the people who are not sympathetic with [Black Lives Matter movement]. The…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you…

— Randall Robinson