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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, a lot of times, the image that black women have in the media is quite negative.

— Selah Louise Marley

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

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance…

— Amandla Stenberg

For me personally, I've always tried to exude positivity and I feel that it's important for all types of experiences of black men to…

— MNEK

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

— Chirlane McCray

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

— Claudia Rankine

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

— Dee Rees

A lot of black women still carry a lot of pain when they see black men with women who aren't black, and that's really…

— Regina King

We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white women, or…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

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

— Robin DiAngelo