Black Quote by Chirlane McCray Download Open image “Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.” — Chirlane McCray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black women Many Media Positive Positive Images Women Women Positive
I think, a lot of times, the image that black women have in the media is quite negative. — Selah Louise Marley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
It's important for the world to see black women as not just the suffering wife or haggard mother. — Simone Missick Copy Share Image
If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I… — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of… — Bill Duke Copy Share Image
That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and need. There… — Mara Brock Akil Copy Share Image
My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
When you become first lady, it's like, 'O.K., now what do you do?' — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
We have to think about the state of women in a more holistic way going forward. We can't be segregated by class and race… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, I identified as a lesbian and wrote about it. In 1991, I met the love of my life, married him. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work. — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much… — Chirlane McCray Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image
