Black Quote by Herb Boyd

Year after year, author/historian William Loren Katz continues to mine the lodestone of Black culture, and it is simply amazing how often he manages…

— Herb Boyd

In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in…

— Bell Hooks

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more…

— Karen Abbott

Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.

— Melvin Van Peebles

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men…

— Matthew Desmond

“The belief that they were special, that they had the stones to endure what others couldn't, was the most quintessentially Texas thing about them.…

— Attica Locke

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the…

— Nikki Giovanni

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work,…

— Alicia Garza

Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

— Anthea Butler

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to…

— Mike Espy

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel