Black Girl Quotes

• If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Growing Up, Southern

  1969 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, opening section.

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• I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

  Carly Rae Jepsen

  Girl, Rainbow, Black

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• Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Grandmother, Clouds

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• Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Girl, Rocks, Choices

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 25, 2010

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• Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a black girl, it's about what it's like to be a girl.

  Celine Sciamma

  Girl, Black

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• I am a black man
  Who was born café con leche
  I sneaked into a party, to which I had not been invited.
  And I got kicked out. They threw me out.
  When I went back to have fun with the black girls
  All together they said 'Maelo, go back to your white girls'
  And they kicked me out. They threw me out.

  Ismael Rivera

  Girl, Fun, Party

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• No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

  Yara Shahidi

  Girl, People, Black

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Eye, Heart

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.160, Random House

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• I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.

  Lil' Kim

  Beautiful, Girl, Self Esteem

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

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• Shakespeare must be a black girl.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Black

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Maya Angelou’s Incredible Life" by Amanda Scherker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Hair, Rocks

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• If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

  Boris Becker

  Girl, Sports, White

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• It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

  Candice Patton

  Girl, Black, Honor

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's not that I prefer black girls, but that's who I find myself relating to as a human being. I am also attracted to really ghetto girls, straight out the hood... a thickey, a real 'pass the hot sauce' type girl.

  Jon B.

  Girl, Real, Ghetto

  "Color Commentary: When Celebrities Talk Interracial Dating". "VIBE" Magazine, www.complex.com. February 12, 2010.

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• I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?

  Zach Braff

  Girl, Mean, White

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• I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to.

  Azealia Banks

  Girl, Tired, White

  "Azealia Banks 'begging to be dropped' by Universal" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Two, White

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• Yes, 'Black Girl/White Girl' might be described as a 'coming-of-age' novel, at least for the survivor Genna. It is also intended as a comment on race relations in America more generally: we are 'roommates' with one another, but how well do we know one another?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Girl, Race, White

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• As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Queens, Growing Up

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• I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

  Grace Jones

  Girl, School, Black

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• Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Writing, Perspective

  "One on one: Jill Scott". LA Focus Newspaper Interview, lafocusnewspaper.com. October 6, 2013.

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• somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Song, Struggle

  Ntozake Shange (2010). “For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Real, Kissing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold’s - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Girl, Party, California

  "The Terminator As Predator? A Look at Arnold on Sex, Abuse, Drugs, & Women". www.democracynow.org. August 29, 2003.

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