Being independent Quote by Anonymous

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

— Malcolm X

There are black marriages that are still going strong 40 years later. You hear so many myths that there aren't any people making it,…

— Jill Scott

I always assumed I'd marry a black woman.

— Trip Lee

The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent…

— Sanaa Lathan

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

— Malcolm X

“Educated black women are too high maintenance, high strung, and independent—they don’t need men. There is a widening gap between the education of black…

— Issa Rae

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice…

— Michel de Montaigne

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

— Leah Ward Sears

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was…

— Rebecca Traister

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong.…

— Boris Kodjoe

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that…

— Randall Kennedy

Anyone who knows Black women and their hair knows it is a big commitment.

— Annamie Paul