Black Girl Quotes - Page 2

• I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?

  Jourdan Dunn

  Girl, Black, Agents

  "Jourdan Dunn Isn’t Impressed With Being The Only Black Model & Neither Should Designers" By Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2014.

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• My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica,
  Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah,
  Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

  Big Sean

  Girl, Rap, Kwanzaa

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• But it is true that some magazines have a policy to show only a certain amount of black girls on their covers. Naomi is right. It's not fair, and I wish it would change.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Black, Wish

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• All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant. I didn't want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby's father, being on welfare. That wasn't going to be my story.

  Foxy Brown

  Girl, Weed, Baby

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• There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

  Lauryn Hill

  Beautiful, Girl, Self Esteem

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• When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Girl, Smart, Thinking

  "Gabourey Sidibe's Message To The World: 'Mind Your Own Body'". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 1, 2017.

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• Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

  Dov Davidoff

  Girl, White, Dating

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 19, 2011

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• They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Girl, Teenage, Black

  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.

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• I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

  Russell Simmons

  Girl, Fun, Kids

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I was the first person that had been so kind to Iman Abdulmajid. As time went on, and she became successful, signed with an agency, when she had to make big decisions, she wouldn't always talk to an agent, she'd ask me. I'd give her good advice and she'd be on her way. When I had ideas to do things like the Black Girls Coalition, I would always talk to her, she always loved my ideas. She trusts me.

  Bethann Hardison

  Girl, Successful, Ideas

  Source: time.com

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• We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.

  Roma Tearne

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are so many people that do things better than I do: dancing, singing like a black girl, singing country. Or if, while they sing, they move their arms in and around their crotch; when I sing, I play the piano and look like a little choirgirl. I'd like to mix it up like that.

  Nellie McKay

  Girl, Country, Moving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All the girls in the industry are really all about making different the norm. Everyone really wants that to stop being a movement and start being normal. It shouldn't be a movement when someone casts a bunch of black girls, or a girl who isn't the typical size, or someone with freckles. It should be an everyday thing.

  Chantelle Brown-Young

  Girl, Black, Everyday

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance.

  Issa Rae

  Fun, Ignorance, Black

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

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• Women of color, particularly Black girls from economically challenged strati, we are told from the minute you start showing signs of being able to be impregnated: Don't get pregnant. You can't have sex because you might get pregnant. You can't wear short shorts because you might get pregnant. Don't talk to boys because you might get pregnant.

  Staceyann Chin

  Girl, Sex, Boys

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Girl, Dream, Brother

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'

  Hilton Als

  Girl, Fashion, White

  "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.

  Willow Smith

  Girl, Black, World

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, White, Dancing

  "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman: the Two Sides of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Tavi Gevinson, www.elle.com. April 30, 2014.

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• I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

  Lauren London

  Girl, Summer, Mom

  "Lauren London Exclusive Interview: ‘Under My Skin” (Part 2)". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. June 2, 2011.

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.

  Robert Glasper

  Girl, Kids, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.

  Skye Townsend

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

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• That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Girl, Art, Museums

  Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Throughout my career, I have benefitted from the experience and counsel of a wide range of people who took a very personal interest in me. As a result, I am always happy to share lessons learned from my journey with others. I am particularly passionate about mentoring young black girls. While we are a very diverse group, there is a special bond that connects us to each other. When I work with them, I see them in me and I believe they see me in them. By coming together, we are able to show the world the power and the promise of black girls.

  Laurel J. Richie

  Girl, Believe, Journey

  Source: aalbc.com

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