Black Quote by Sarah Cooper

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

— Gerda Lerner

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

— Jaz Sinclair

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

— Carol Moseley Braun

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

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning…

— Maya Angelou

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in…

— Geraldine Ferraro

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

— Maureen Duffy

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and…

— Audre Lorde

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

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women…

— Ruby Dee

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer,…

— Spike Lee