Black Women Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.

  Shola Lynch

  Black, Individual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Dating black women will ruin your life

  Terrence Howard

  Dating, Black, Ruins

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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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• 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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• 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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• Back home the black women are all beautiful

  Amiri Baraka

  Beauty, Beautiful, Home

  Imamu Amiri Baraka (1969). “Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967”

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• ... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Men, Two, White

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• 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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• 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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• The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

  Dorothy Height

  Struggle, Black, Persons

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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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• 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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• 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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• Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.

  Spike Lee

  People, Black, Cinema

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• We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

  Audre Lorde

  Black, Literature, Study

  "Sister Outsider" by Audre Lorde, ("Eye to Eye"), 1984.

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• Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Ties, Black

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.47, Crossing Press

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• In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Black, Faculty

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.48, Crossing Press

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• Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

  Bernie Mac

  Strong, Sex, Romance

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

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• I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Home, Two

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• Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Lying, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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