Black women Quote by B. Love

“The women work because the white folks give them jobs—washing dishes and clothes and floors and windows. The women work because for years now…

— Ann Petry

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying…

— Toni Morrison

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men…

— Matthew Desmond

“black women were working all day (often scrubbing the homes of white women), it was impossible for them also to fulfill the at-home maternal…

— Rebecca Traister

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

— Bell Hooks

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife - but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren't just housewives, they…

— Betty Friedan

For generations, Black women have been at the very center of social change. Our fingerprints can be found on every movement from abolition, to…

— Laphonza Butler

“Blacks complained that most leaders were white, which was true. Feminists complained that most all were men, which was also true. Soon black women…

— Mark Lilla

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they…

— Wilma Rudolph

“That’s some shit, and it hurts. We talked about the disconnect between the adoration so many black men shower on their mothers and grandmothers…

— Gabrielle Union

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of…

— Bell Hooks