African women Quote by John Henrik Clarke Download Open image “The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.” — John Henrik Clarke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare African women Equal White
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience. — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Women living their lives around the world, and the majority of the world is not white. — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
My loving sister Mary has always shared the pain and pleasure of my heartbeat in a unique and special way. We have sung our… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
What we might have been dealing with here - with the building of the Pyramids - is an age that got lost. Man had… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Each chapter in MissBehave is about navigating life as a black woman and all encounters that led me to espouse feminist ideals” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected in a very left-wing constituency in Paris. The French don't seem to be ready to elect people from a visible minority. So maybe this society is not ready to have a woman from a foreign background… — Patrick Gaubert Copy Share
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the… — Kola Boof Copy Share
I stand before you and the world humbled by this recognition and uplifted by the honour of being the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate. As… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it.… — Buchi Emecheta Copy Share Image
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African. They judge me before they get to know me. What they do not know is The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins; The pride I have in my rich culture and the history… — idowu koyenikan Copy Share
Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story… — Afua Cooper Copy Share
There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us… — Kola Boof Copy Share
