Black Quote by Kerry Washington

Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones.…

— Derrick Grayson

“This “disorganized family life” in Black neighborhoods was caused by racial discrimination, poverty, cultural pathology, and the introduction of the matriarchal Black family during…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“black women were working all day (often scrubbing the homes of white women), it was impossible for them also to fulfill the at-home maternal…

— Rebecca Traister

American chattel slavery was practically defined by the fundamental instability of Black families. The institution rested on the expropriation of the reproductive capacities of…

— Jamelle Bouie

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

— Andrew Young

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

— Andrew Young

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

After Emancipation, black women married earlier and more often because they were legally free to do so for the first time, and that was…

— Rebecca Traister

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

Enslaved people worked hard to preserve family ties and maintain kinship networks. They married, even as the law would not recognize their unions, and…

— Jamelle Bouie

There was a great deal of inbreeding between the Indians and the slaves. Genetically speaking, black people are some part black, some part European.

— Alex Haley

I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go…

— John Henrik Clarke