Black Quote by Dee Rees

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

We have to reach out to younger audiences. They need to see how they can see themselves as black women.

— Linda Johnson Rice

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

— Issa Rae

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

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

— Selah Louise Marley

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

— Chirlane McCray

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

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

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

— Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also…

— Tarana Burke