Black Women Quotes - Page 11

• Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.

  Jenji Kohan

  Latin, Black, Casting

  Source: collider.com

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• I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, White, People

  "Bad As I Wanna Be". Book by Dennis Rodman, 1996.

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• I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

  Jill Scott

  Successful, Men, America

  "'The Real Thing,' According to Jill Scott". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 25, 2007.

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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• It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Men, White Man

  Source: www.today.com

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• I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Character

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

  Chris Rock

  Men, White Man, Black

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• 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.

  Bill Maher

  Real, People, Black

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Couple, Inspiration, Men

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)

  Pearl Cleage

  Home, School, America

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

  Cicely Tyson

  Believe, Role Models, Effort

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• I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Reality, Feminist, African American

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• How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?

  Maureen Duffy

  Men, White Man, Black

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• Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

  Runoko Rashidi

  Men, Black, Honor

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• 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.

  Alice Walker

  People, Heaven, Black

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• It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?

  Richard Dawson

  Kings, Crazy, Kissing

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

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• Black people don't know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it's the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.

  Sister Souljah

  Beautiful, Talking, White

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Black, Church, Facts

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• My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.

  Blair Underwood

  Fall, Men, Years

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• 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.

  Herb Boyd

  Oklahoma, Texas, California

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• I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

  Mari Evans

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

  Snoop Dogg

  Strong, Believe, Reflection

  "The Evolution of Snoop Dogg: How Keeping It Real And Being A Family Man Remains A Balancing Act For Rapper". Interview with Margena A. Christian for Jet Magazine, March 17, 2008.

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• I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Two, America, Black

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• Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.

  Sister Souljah

  Country, Party, Play

  "Today", June 16, 1992.

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