African american Quote by Joycelyn Elders

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

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

— Jami Floyd

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

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

“Black females, for the most part, know by the time they are ten years old that the world is not much concerned with the…

— Maya Angelou

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given…

— Misty Copeland

I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of…

— Bill Duke

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

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good…

— Yvonne Orji

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine

Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but…

— Michael Eric Dyson

We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think…

— Tamron Hall