Black Women Quotes - Page 12

• Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

  Halle Berry

  Sex, Race, Black

  "The Seductress". Herald Sun, March 26, 2005.

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• What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

  Countee Cullen

  Strong, Stars, Men

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.

  Nicole Beharie

  Struggle, Character, Sassy

  "Exclusive! Nicole Beharie Talks Career Choices, Burden Of Representation, Being An “It” Girl & More". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2011.

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• Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Two, Black, Want

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• [On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, Black, Pennsylvania

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• 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.

  Cheryl Lynn

  Nice, Book, Voice

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• I absolutely love what I do. And I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT. Before I knew that there had never been a black woman, that was always my goal. I wanted to dance Odette-Odile and Kitri and "Don Quixote" and Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." So that's still my goal. But knowing that it's never been done before, I think makes me fight even harder.

  Misty Copeland

  Sleep, Fighting, Thinking

  "Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 9, 2014.

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• I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Beautiful, Acceptance, Hair

  "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'My new novel is about love, race... and hair'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• A black woman's body was never hers alone.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Black, Body, Women's Bodies

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

  Dorothy B. Porter

  Black, Depth, Records

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• I don't think of God as an old white man with no belly button, nor even an old black woman with no belly button. But I agree that God is something eternal. Something cannot come out of nothing. I believe God is Everything. And I believe in infinity.

  Pete Seeger

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Source: portside.org

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• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Thinking, Color

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• In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

  Christopher Darden

  People, Black, Stories

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• Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death... I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Pain, Men, White

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• 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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Identity, Groups

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

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Rocks, Black, Cradle

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• 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.

  Tichina Arnold

  Mom, Children, Motherhood

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

  Bryan Fuller

  White, Different Experiences, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

  Malcolm X

  America, Black, Persons

  Malcolm X's speech in Los Angeles, amara.org. May 5, 1962.

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• Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!

  Zoe Kravitz

  Thinking, Hair, Years

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

  Frances M. Beal

  America, Black, Slave

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• I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look.

  Miriam Makeba

  Hair, Black, Style

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• I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, People, Black

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.

  Octavia Spencer

  Blessing, Giving, Mind

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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