Black women Quote by Bill Duke

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been…

— Spike Lee

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

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine

I think, a lot of times, the image that black women have in the media is quite negative.

— Selah Louise Marley

A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really…

— Regina King

There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

— Morgan Parker

Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They…

— Bell Hooks

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 are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

— Franchesca Ramsey

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

— Bell Hooks

There have been countless Black women who have been unfortunately mistreated, blackballed, looked over.

— Quinta Brunson