Assumption Quote by Morgan Parker

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

— Jami Floyd

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think…

— Jesmyn Ward

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

For me personally, I've always tried to exude positivity and I feel that it's important for all types of experiences of black men to…

— MNEK

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

— Joycelyn Elders

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

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and…

— Bell Hooks

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin…

— Amandla Stenberg

It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if…

— Heather Mac Donald

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine