America Quote by Jill Scott

The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were…

— Colin Callender

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

— Patricia Hill Collins

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

— Audre Lorde

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying…

— Toni Morrison

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

“Waking and sleeping she had demanded to know where she belonged in a white man's world, and how and where she should invest her…

— John Le Carre

“We keep coming back to the question of representation because identity is always about representation. People forget that when they wanted white women to…

— bell hooks

As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New…

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other…

— Gail Collins

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

It's profound to watch a little African-American girl light up when she raps as George Washington and she realizes that Washington's story is her…

— Rory O'Malley