Aspect Quote by Assata Shakur

Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having…

— Susan L. Taylor

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way…

— Morgan Parker

Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Black people we've been taught that we will never be free, until some will have to die, some will have to give up wealth,…

— Muhammad Ali

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality…

— Wanda Sykes

I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

— Patrisse Cullors

“Above all else, our politics initially sprang from the shared belief that Black women are inherently valuable, that our liberation is a necessity not…

— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Black people in America will never be free so long as they're on the white man's land. We can't be free until we get…

— Muhammad Ali

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and…

— Angela Davis

“I want to live in a liberated intersectional society. As long as inequality and discrimination exists, I cannot be satisfied with the life that…

— Malebo Sephodi

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall picture and…

— David Banner

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson