Barriers Quote by Pauli Murray

There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

— Robin DiAngelo

Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the…

— Pearl S. Buck

Black women are so very often stereotyped in pop culture.

— Franchesca Ramsey

... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Black women have historically had the most to lose and have therefore been the fiercest fighters for justice.

— Rhiannon Giddens

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

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been…

— Spike Lee

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are…

— Warren Farrell

My experiences with gender bias are probably the norm. What I found was that expectations of women were simply lower, and this resulted in…

— Heather Bresch

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved.…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton