Black women Quote by Misty Copeland

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences…

— Misty Copeland

I just want to tell black stories.

— Daniel Kaluuya

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

— Marley Dias

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

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

“Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of…

— Audre Lorde

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel

There are literally hundreds of stories about women of color that haven't been told that are amazing, fantastic, better than anything else.

— A'Lelia Bundles

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for…

— Lupita Nyong'o

... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

— Joycelyn Elders

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

— Lena Waithe