Black Women Quotes - Page 9

• Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

  Maxine Waters

  Jobs, Thinking, Losing Friends

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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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• 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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• 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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• As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.

  Runoko Rashidi

  Strong, Love You, Intelligent

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• There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.

  Audre Lorde

  Mother, Teacher, Keys

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.

  Tyra Banks

  Children, Blood, Black

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Fighting, Emotional, Talking

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• The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which it reflects and which it seeks to foster, Black feminist thought can create a collective identity among African-American women about the dimensions of a Black women's standpoint. Through the process of rearticulating, Black feminist thought can offer African-American women a different view of ourselves and our worlds

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Our World, Views

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• I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Community, Support, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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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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• Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

  Bryan Fischer

  Husband, Father, People

  "New reality: You are what you tweet" by Jennifer Martinez, www.politico.com. May 05, 2011.

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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 the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  Black, Firsts, Female

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• I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.

  Wanda Sykes

  Gay, Black, Proud

  "Side Benefit of Prop 8’s Passage: Celebrities Busting Out of Closet" by Party Ben, www.motherjones.com. November 16, 2008.

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• As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Fighting, People

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• I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, White, People

  "Bad As I Wanna Be". Book by Dennis Rodman, 1996.

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• I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

  Jill Scott

  Successful, Men, America

  "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 25, 2007.

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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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 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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• 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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