Black Quote by Shirley Chisholm

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

— Patricia Hill Collins

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their…

— Tichina Arnold

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and…

— Alice Walker

I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.

— Jamaal Bowman

“Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But…

— Leith Mullings

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

— Ronald Reagan

“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were…

— Susan J. Douglas

When our founding fathers drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights, black people weren't even considered human.

— Claudette Colvin

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again.…

— John Henrik Clarke

The only Black woman I ever loved is my mama.

— Taye Diggs

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

— Ariel Gore

It's important for the world to see black women as not just the suffering wife or haggard mother.

— Simone Missick