Black Quote by Eleanor Holmes Norton

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong.…

— Boris Kodjoe

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

— Zoe Saldana

“The reality is that many Black men in the household are conditioned to see that their sole responsibility as a parent is to provide…

— Anonymous

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

— Katori Hall

My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Women know, and so do many men, that two or three children who are wanted, prepared for, reared amid love and stability, and educated…

— Shirley Chisholm

And that is a hard route for a woman to come through. There's still a lot of roles that have to be conformed to.…

— Colin Firth

For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real…

— Audre Lorde

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and…

— Audre Lorde

There are not many roles where women are really active.

— Kathleen Quinlan

“Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of…

— Audre Lorde

Women are responsible for creating their own roles

— Kathleen Turner