African american Quote by Ibi Zoboi

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play…

— Audra McDonald

We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture,…

— Anais Nin

“Nowadays people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions and next they’ll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“America today limits girls’ development, truncates their wholeness and leaves many of them traumatized.”

— Mary Pipher

I find myself increasingly forced to think of my ethnic identity instead of the national identity I adopted as a boy in 1976. That…

— Max Boot

“And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can…

— Malebo Sephodi

When it comes to racial issues, I'm very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember…

— Kelly Rowland

“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with the language…

— Gabor Maté

There's a lot of Black women on TV in the media and I feel like we look different, but we also still look like…

— Ayo Edebiri

The more knowledgeable the African-American woman becomes about herself and her history, the more attractive her personality becomes.

— Anonymous

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those…

— Hillary Clinton