African american Quote by Michelle Obama

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

Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

— Charley Pride

“...she was sensitive enough and intelligent enough to understand, and her literary education could not but have sharpened her perception of the evidence before…

— Chinua Achebe

I remember being on a red carpet and they put the mic to us and asked 'are you feminists?' and we panicked. We were…

— Perrie Edwards

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain…

— Wangari Maathai

“As a straight, cisgender, able-bodied, neurotypical, first-world, middle-class white woman, she struggled to maintain a constant awareness of her privilege, and to avoid using…

— Tom Perrotta

[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England…

— Tina Howe

In every generation and in every intellectual sphere and in every political moment, there have been African American women who have articulated the need…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America…

— Michelle Obama

Some days, I do feel that pressure of, 'What do I mean as a black woman? What am I representing?' It honestly just gives…

— Jessica Williams

“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to…

— Michelle Orange

Growing up, I saw Mum as being so celebratory of our culture. So I was surprised to hear - during discussions sparked by the…

— Miquita Oliver