Black Women Quotes - Page 4

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sympathy, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

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• There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Moving On, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 14, 2013

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• When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

  Brittney Griner

  Happy, Strong, Women

  "Owning The Middle". Article by Kate Fagan, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

  Sarah Vaughan

  Music, Song, African American

  "The Hollywood Reporter" Interview, 1974.

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• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  Foxy Brown

  Black, Guilty, Crime

  "Rapper Brown Says She’s a Victim". blog.sfgate.com. February 27, 2007.

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• Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Heart

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2014

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Reading, Book

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

  Claudia Rankine

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies". Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.

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• My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

  Jami Floyd

  Hair, Parent, Political

  "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

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• I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

  Janet Jackson

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Romantic

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• Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, Resentment, Burden

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 21, 2015

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• Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Inspiring, Art

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 07, 2011

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• You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, Needs, Persons

  "Rob and Kristen Bell on the Best Way to Find Love". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.eharmony.com.

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• I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Second Chance

  Twitter post from Mar 03, 2013

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• I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

  Twitter post from Jan 19, 2016

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• Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

  Maya Angelou

  Giving, Saying Thank You, Greatest Gifts

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 12, 2014

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  Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.5, Random House

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• I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an 'errie' in it!

  Jordin Sparks

  Black, Berries, Raspberries

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