Black Women Quotes

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.

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

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

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.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

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.

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

Back home the black women are all beautiful

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people -- especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

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.

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

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

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

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

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

Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

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

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

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

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.

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

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

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

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

Dating black women will ruin your life

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

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.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.