Black Women Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• [On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, Black, Pennsylvania

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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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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Children, Struggle

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• ...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Black And White, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Character

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• 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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• Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Kings, Thinking

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

  Bill Maher

  Real, People, Black

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• We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

  Jewell Jackson McCabe

  Reality, Black, Twenties

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Country, Justice, Community

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• Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

  Andrew Young

  Black, Gone, Bills

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• I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

  Miriam Makeba

  Hair, Black, Style

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• A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  White, Different Experiences, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Rocks, Black, Cradle

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• Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Issues

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• God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

  Octavia Spencer

  Blessing, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

  Rosa Parks

  Believe, Organization, Black

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

  Malcolm X

  America, Black, Persons

  Malcolm X's speech in Los Angeles, amara.org. May 5, 1962.

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• Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

  Frances M. Beal

  America, Black, Slave

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• There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

  Tichina Arnold

  Mom, Children, Motherhood

  Source: www.ebony.com

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