Believe Quote by Ice Cube

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

— Dorothy Height

I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

— Truman Capote

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Black people have to define who we are, or others do it for us.

— Baron Vaughn

Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is…

— Danny Glover

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of…

— Sonia Sanchez

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for…

— Mara Brock Akil

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.

— Pitbull

As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.

— Jaz Sinclair

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee