Black Women Quotes
157 Black Women quotes by 104 unique authors
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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in…
— Afrika Bambaataa
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Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
— Tyra Banks
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that…
— Mary J. Blige
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked…
— Maya Angelou
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There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.
— Tupac Shakur
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The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
— Maya Angelou
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Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.
— Hazel Scott
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If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black…
— Malcolm X
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I…
— Halle Berry
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To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I…
— Naomie Harris
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Let’s just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made…
— Taye Diggs
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The only Black woman I ever loved is my mama.
— Taye Diggs
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Dating black women will ruin your life
— Terrence Howard
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I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black…
— Lupita Nyong'o
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room,…
— Halle Berry
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman
— Foxy Brown
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As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put,…
— Runoko Rashidi
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
— Mara Brock Akil
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I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get…
— Janet Jackson
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When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
— Mike Tyson
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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece…
— Audre Lorde
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