Black Women Quotes - Page 3

• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, African American, Phenomenal Woman

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Responsibility, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 29, 2010

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• What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Grandmother, Artist

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.41, Rutgers University Press

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• Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

  Tyra Banks

  Girl, Sexy, Doors

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• The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

  Maya Angelou

  Black, Sometimes, Breasts

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Black, Done, Worthwhile

  Quoted in Brian Lanker I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America (1989).

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• I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.

  Halle Berry

  Mother, Black And White, Thinking

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

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• Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

  Audre Lorde

  Curves, America, Black

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• Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

  Tyler Perry

  Black, Madea, Earrings

  Tyler Perry (2007). “Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life”, Penguin

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• I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.

  Maya Angelou

  Self Esteem, Mean, Resilience

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Sep 24, 2013

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• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

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• How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?

  T. D. Jakes

  Children, Black, Teach

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Change, Years, White

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Black, President, Impossible

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• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  Halle Berry

  Relationship, Love Yourself, Men

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• Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

  Bell Hooks

  Black, World

  "Communion: The Female Search for Love". Book by Bell Hooks, January 22, 2002.

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• Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

  Ben Horowitz

  Wife, Black, Loyal

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• If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

  Runoko Rashidi

  Queens, Believe, Black

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• It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

  Morgan Parker

  Pain, Thinking, 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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• I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Confused, Black

  "Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?" by Willa Paskin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Twitter post from May 08, 2013

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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