Black Quote by Tichina Arnold

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish…

— Jessica Lange

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

— Patricia Hill Collins

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where…

— Patricia Hill Collins

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how…

— LL Cool J

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

— Patricia Hill Collins

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the…

— Charles Stanley

Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation…

— Elaine Heffner

Motherhood is more than bearing children...It is the essence of who we are as women.

— Sheri L. Dew

“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

To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such…

— Spencer W. Kimball

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred…

— Alice Walker

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our…

— Sheri L. Dew