Black Quote by Retta

Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.

— Richard Attias

I walk into a room, there's one or two black women. There aren't that many because the pipeline of talent just isn't there.

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

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

— Gerda Lerner

Many of the girls who were in the orphanage with me became either nurses or social workers.

— Ruth Westheimer

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

I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

— Khandi Alexander

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They…

— Wilma Rudolph

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

— Jaz Sinclair

Black women have a kind of advantage over white women in the workplace. They go in prepared to face some discrimination, so when it…

— Mellody Hobson

When I started to work in the kitchen, there's not a lot of women that were working and I didn't try to pay attention…

— Dominique Crenn

When I walk into work and I see a predominantly white room, I'm like, 'But why?' It doesn't need to be like this. There…

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

The history of black women in the economy is rooted in the legacy of slavery. Enslaved black women were forced to provide care work,…

— Alicia Garza