Black Women Quotes - Page 10

• If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

  Chris Rock

  Men, White Man, Black

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• I wanted to play roles which offered new ways of viewing black women and black people in general- and I have done that. And I have always, whether I needed to pay the rent or not, I've always turned down roles which I thought were stereotypical. And so when I look at my body of work in that respect, I am really happy. Because I feel my work does say something positive and that was what I always set out to do.

  Naomie Harris

  Play, People, Black

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• I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: portside.org

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• Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Rights, Black

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Thinking, Color

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• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, Acceptance, Hair

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

  Cheryl Lynn

  Nice, Book, Voice

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• There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.

  Nicole Beharie

  Struggle, Character, Sassy

  "Exclusive! Nicole Beharie Talks Career Choices, Burden Of Representation, Being An “It” Girl & More". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

  Lucille Clifton

  Black, Sound, Poet

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• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

  Richard Dawson

  Kings, Crazy, Kissing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

  Sister Souljah

  Beautiful, Talking, White

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• My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

  Blair Underwood

  Fall, Men, Years

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• Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

  Herb Boyd

  Oklahoma, Texas, California

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• Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

  Jenji Kohan

  Latin, Black, Casting

  Source: collider.com

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• What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

  Countee Cullen

  Strong, Stars, Men

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

  Halle Berry

  Sex, Race, Black

  "The Seductress". Herald Sun, March 26, 2005.

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• I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Two, America, Black

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• Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

  Snoop Dogg

  Strong, Believe, Reflection

  "The Evolution of Snoop Dogg: How Keeping It Real And Being A Family Man Remains A Balancing Act For Rapper". Interview with Margena A. Christian for Jet Magazine, March 17, 2008.

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• I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.

  Misty Copeland

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  "Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 9, 2014.

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• Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

  Maya Angelou

  Black, Church, Facts

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• We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

  Alice Walker

  People, Heaven, Black

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• How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

  Maureen Duffy

  Men, White Man, Black

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• Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

  Cicely Tyson

  Believe, Role Models, Effort

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• Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Two, Black, Want

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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