Black Quote by Audre Lorde

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

— Michaela Angela Davis

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and…

— Audre Lorde

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

— Rhiannon Giddens

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

— Toni Morrison

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make…

— Malcolm X

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

— Daniel Kaluuya

When you think about what Black women have meant to us Black women have always been our guide. Black women have always been the…

— Wes Moore

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

Women are women's own worst enemy. They rip each other apart.

— Keith Allen

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

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders