Black Women Quotes - Page 6

• ... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Order, African American, Black

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• From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Hair, Self, Childhood

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Black, Our Society, Matter

  "Miss Me With the Pass for R. Kelly", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2015.

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• Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

  Bell Hooks

  Acceptance, Men, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.89, Routledge

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Strong, Race, Black

  "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.

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• I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Powerful, Black, Hollywood

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Responsibility, Black, Has Beens

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• . . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Black, Intellectual, Mind

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.196, Routledge

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

  Jami Floyd

  People, Black, Way

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Writing, Black, Humans

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• I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Black, Knows

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Black, Honor, Doe

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Mean, Men, Roots

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Real, Mean, Men

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

  Donna Brazile

  Yes We Can, Black, Nominations

  "My Interview With Donna Brazile". Interview with Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS, tygrrrrexpress.com. 2008.

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• I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, People, Black

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• I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

  Grace Jones

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.

  Frances M. Beal

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Thinking, America, Interesting

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• Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Hero, Political

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8, 2008.

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