Failure Quote by Nate Dogg

As Black women, we know that there's an expectation of us to fail in some way. So we have to work a thousand times…

— Myha'la

In the USA, it's harder for a black man with no criminal record to find a job than a white man with a criminal…

— Benjamin Jealous

As a Black woman you do have to work harder for everything. The world is not going to hand you things.

— Jaz Sinclair

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

— Dorothy Height

Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does it, he…

— Sarah Cooper

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

It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or…

— Pearl Cleage

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Gerda Lerner

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more…

— Snoop Dogg

There have been countless Black women who have been unfortunately mistreated, blackballed, looked over.

— Quinta Brunson

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