Black Women Quotes - Page 13

• We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Identity, Groups

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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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• 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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• Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

  Richard Masur

  Believe, Character, Black

  Source: www.abilitymagazine.com

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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  Queen Latifah

  Perfect, People, Black

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

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• I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Struggle, Book, Black

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture -
  at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Religious, Home, School

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

  Ayana Mathis

  Strong, Black, Stereotype

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

  Viola Davis

  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Motherhood, Being A Mom, Black

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• There are many things that black women can continue to do to help black folk. First, black women have historically been among the most vocal advocates for equality in our community. We must take full advantage of such courage by continuing to combat the sexism in our communities. Black women, whether in church, or hip-hop, don't receive their just due. Second, when black women are in charge of child-rearing, they must make ever so sure to raise black children who respect both men and women, and who root out the malevolent beliefs about women that shatter our culture.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Children, Men, Community

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

  Julia Mavimbela

  Education, Time, Blessed

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• I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Writing, Views, Black

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

  Amber Riley

  Black, Roles, Size

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.

  Sarah Silverman

  Wise, Gay, Bisexual

  "The Sarah Silverman Program", February 1, 2007 - April 15, 2010.

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• The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

  David Duke

  Men, Two, White

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• You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Hero, Black, Never Expect

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• I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

  Bertice Berry

  Home, Land, Addiction

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• Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Growing Up, Character, Black

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing one iota of my blackness or my femaleness or my humanity.

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Long

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• We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community.

  Marita Golden

  Loyalty, Daughter, Real

  Marita Golden (2011). “Saving Our Sons”, p.185, Anchor

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• Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.

  Audre Lorde

  Voice, Issues, Black

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.197, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Jobs, Husband, Adventure

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.

  Moms Mabley

  Children, White, Differences

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