Aspire Quote by Anna Julia Cooper

That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and need. There…

— Mara Brock Akil

It's not often that a woman of color gets to sing material from the golden age or material that was inspired by the time…

— Ariana DeBose

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the…

— Margaret Mead

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

— Janelle Monae

It still amazes and fascinates me that women of color have kept my work alive for these many generations.

— Ntozake Shange

To be a woman of color, to be a woman with financial limitations, there's a hustle, a drive, a diligence that's like no other.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

“The longstanding effort to "colorize" feminist theory by inserting the experiences of women of color represents at best genuine efforts to reduce bias in…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“Single women that place high value on Higher Education are often the brunt of snide remarks and smearing put downs by less educated black…

— Deborrah Cooper

I think, in general, more women need to be involved in music and in the industry - that's been an issue.

— Tinashe

A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

— Jasmine Guinness

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself…

— Camille Paglia