Black Women Quotes - Page 8

• The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it ­ - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, America, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings and thoughts onto. I was drawn to a little bit of a dichotomy between the glamour and celebrity and the very deep and complex legacy of black women, and what that means in terms of performance.

  Morgan Parker

  Mean, Feelings, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Color, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.

  Morgan Parker

  Beautiful, Book, Black

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• I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

  Alice Walker

  Feminist, Black, Doe

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• It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

  Dionne Warwick

  Black, Entertainment, Frustrating

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• If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

  Mark Bradford

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.

  Morgan Parker

  Top Down, Color, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• I've liked different women at different times in my life. I've been attracted to white women. I've been attracted to black women. I've been attracted to Asian women. I've been attracted to various subspecies of women. I can say with gratitude that I've been able to experiment.

  Oliver Stone

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Gratitude

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• I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

  Morgan Parker

  Black, Claims, Like Me

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and become for us in the meantime, because back then, folks were like, "Why Beyoncé? I don't get why she is kind of the symbol for black womanhood."

  Morgan Parker

  Interesting, Black, Looks

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• I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.

  Shelby Steele

  Men, Thinking, White

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Black

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Education, Jobs, College

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• I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

  Tommy Chong

  Brother, Kids, Men

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Voice

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.

  Tupac Shakur

  Mother, Kids, Dark

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.

  Bill Ayers

  Baby, Mean, Son

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• -When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Strong, Growing Up, Bridges

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• Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

  Hazel Scott

  Justice, Diversity, Black

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• Let’s just say it’s not a stereotype that Black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around them Black women made me really miss my wife.

  Taye Diggs

  Wife, Missing, Black

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• Dating black women will ruin your life

  Terrence Howard

  Dating, Black, Ruins

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• I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Opportunity, Black, Way

  "Interview: Lupita Nyong'o Takes S&A Inside the Emotion and Brutality of Filming '12 Years a Slave'". "Shadow & Act" Interview, shadowandact.com. April 20, 2017.

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