African women Quote by Wangari Maathai

I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

— Julie Delpy

When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain…

— Wangari Maathai

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following…

— Wangari Maathai

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain…

— Patricia McConnell

It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question…

— Issa Rae

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

I feel like I have a very typical west African physique, and that is part of my blackness!

— Wunmi Mosaku

As a kid, growin' up, I can't front, it was hard. I was just coming in from Africa. I was mad black. Dark skin…

— Akon

Being African didn't mean anything to me until later in my life.

— Fela Kuti

We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think…

— Tamron Hall

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was…

— Misty Copeland