Black women Quote by Letitia Wright

. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of…

— Gerda Lerner

I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I feel like…

— Raheem DeVaughn

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

— Gabriella Wilson

Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

— Franchesca Ramsey

We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To…

— Frances M. Beal

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In…

— Skye Townsend

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

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

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 care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.

— Anthea Butler

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee

“Black women and Black girls in STEM are phenomenal! They’re intelligent, fearless, resilient, and unstoppable. They exude confidence, strength, determination, and excellence. Accept it……

— Stephanie Lahart