Black Quote by Audre Lorde

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin…

— Amandla Stenberg

“When we dare to speak in a liberatory voice, we threaten even those who may initially claim to want our words. In the act…

— bell hooks

“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the…

— Maya Angelou

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling…

— Jemele Hill

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

Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The goal of some individuals in government is not to hear the voices of Black Americans at all. It's to hear the voices that…

— Mark Robinson

Somebody has always wanted me to speak as a voice of black America, but it has dawned on me that I can only speak…

— Yolanda King

“For many people of color, learning to break the silence is a survival issue. To remain silent would be to disconnect from her own…

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance…

— Amandla Stenberg

“My Blackness is just too much for some people to handle. I’m a confident, intelligent, beautiful, and powerful Black woman with greatness inside my…

— Stephanie Lahart