Complicated Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if…

— Nicole Beharie

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were…

— Christopher Darden

“The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to…

— Rebecca Gordon

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

— Dorothy Height

“I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it…

— Bell Hooks

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

— Patricia Hill Collins

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

— Anonymous

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself…

— Octavia Butler