Black Quote by Jami Floyd Download Open image “For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.” — Jami Floyd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black women Consistent People Way
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility. — Nicole Ari Parker Copy Share Image
I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
I always want black girls to feel confident in who they are, and in their skin. — Bree Runway Copy Share Image
I speak from a black woman's perspective, and that's a specific perspective, but sometimes there are things I want to be understood by folks… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation. Out of necessity,… — Mickalene Thomas Copy Share Image
As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a 'good' version of yourself. And then… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political. — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
When I have my Afro and walk down the street, there's no doubt that I'm black. With this [straightened] hair, if I talk about… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be… — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair. — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's… — John Boyega Copy Share Image