African Women Quotes
11 African Women quotes by 8 unique authors
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are…
— Joyce Banda
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She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I…
— Buchi Emecheta
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I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As the…
— Wangari Maathai
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When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions…
— Wangari Maathai
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Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three…
— Unknown Author
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I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is…
— Danai Gurira
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are…
— Wangari Maathai
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not…
— Wangari Maathai
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Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
— Richard Attias
Who Wrote These African Women Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 11 African Women Quotes as follows: