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Black Women Quotes by Audre Lorde
- 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…
- Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and…
- Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I…
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move…
- We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from…
- Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
- In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than…
More Black Women Quotes
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa
- 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
- Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks
- I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will… — Mary J. Blige
- But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and… — Maya Angelou
- There ain't nothin' like a Black woman. — Tupac Shakur
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou
- Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in… — Hazel Scott
- If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black… — Malcolm X
- I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my… — Halle Berry
- To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham