Black Women Quotes - Page 10

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

  Malcolm X

  Men, Black, Proud

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Black women must help black men understand their full potential lies not in denying black women full access to their humanity and opportunity, but in working diligently to overcome the odds that hamper our progress. Yes, some of that is self-imposed, and we must confront it; and much of it comes from outside. But without courageous and brilliant black women, our communities are greatly diminished.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Lying, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Thinking, Black

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Children, Struggle

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Katherine Johnson never complained, it just was what it was. She just said, "I just wanted to go to work and do my numbers." And she stopped right there. I think about that as a Black woman in Hollywood when I'm asked about diversity. I hate when people say diversity because the first thing you jump to is Black and white. When you talk about diversity, you're talking about women being hired in front of and behind the camera. You are talking about people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community...so I hate when people think about diversity.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Hate, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• ...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.

  Toni Morrison

  Writing, Black And White, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

  Octavia Spencer

  Integrity, Black, Negative

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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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 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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• I felt like if I didn't write about what happened to the young men here in the South of America, the same things would keep occurring. Here in the South, young black men just keep dying - young black women, too. I couldn't live with myself if I hadn't been as honest as possible about that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Writing, Men, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Country, Justice, Community

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

  Lucille Clifton

  Black, Sound, Poet

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• The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

  Mamphela Ramphele

  Black, Female, Racist

  Mamphela Ramphele, Johnnetta B. Cole (1999). “Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader”, p.181, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'

  Janelle Monae

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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

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• Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.

  Ishmael Reed

  Character, Men, Black History

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

  Condola Rashad

  Thinking, Black, Los Angeles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.

  Gore Vidal

  Gay, Rights, Black

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• "Southland" was not written for a black woman.

  Regina King

  Black, Written

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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

  Regina King

  Black, Blonde, Written

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kuow.org. March 21, 2016.

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

  Pam Grier

  Black, Trying, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Smart, Military

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

  John Lewis

  Teacher, Kings, Thinking

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith on MTV News' "The Stakes" podcast, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

  V. Bozeman

  Rocks, Black, Trying

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.

  Artie Lange

  Two, Black, Months

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