Black women Quote by Wunmi Mosaku

I think that, as a black girl, you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn't accept your hair or your skin…

— Amandla Stenberg

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

Up until I was 30 I really didn't date seriously outside of my race because I felt like society - not my parents, not…

— Rachel Lindsay

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could imagine, this…

— Shaun King

My parents were 30 years older than I was, and my parents had my brother and I ten years apart. My parents grew up…

— Courtney A. Kemp

“You don’t know, and there’s no way in the world for you to find out, what it’s like to be a black girl in…

— James Baldwin

“Aging does that; it makes you amenable to far more ambiguous feelings and opinions than the inflexible black-and-white thinking of youth.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

When I was growing up, my mother used to say, 'Don't ever bring no nappy-head Black girl to my house.' In the deep South…

— Mathew Knowles

When I was young, I loved black men.

— Jessica Alba

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

As a black woman I always felt growing up I had to do above and beyond stuff to be noticed, to feel like I…

— Crystal Dunn

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