Black women Quote by Wangechi Mutu

I'm constantly fighting the angry black woman stigma, the 'You're pretty, you can't be funny' stigma.

— Amanda Seales

I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been…

— Spike Lee

Recognize that being one of the only black people in an organization, or just in a meeting, automatically makes you very visible. Use this…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences…

— Misty Copeland

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a…

— Amy Sherald

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

— Selah Louise Marley

Blackness has always been stigmatised, even amongst black people who flee from the density of that blackness. Some black people recoil from black people…

— Kerry James Marshall

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

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

“Resisting the stereotypes and affirming other definitions of themselves is part of the task facing young Black women in both White and Black communities.”

— Beverly Daniel Tatum