Black Women Quotes - Page 5

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  Nothing will work unless you do.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2017

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• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

  Tina Turner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Trust

  "Do Not Love Your Neighbor as Yourself... Yet" by Rea Nolan Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2014.

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• Even if you meet the perfect person, it ain’t gonna be at the perfect time. You’re married, they’re single. That’s right. You’re Jewish, they’re Palestinian. You’re a Mexican, they’re a raccoon. You’re a black woman, he’s a black man.

  Chris Rock

  Men, Perfect, Mexican

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, April 17, 2004.

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• When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

  Rosa Parks

  Black, Roles, Today

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

  June Jordan

  Freedom, Power, African American

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.137, Basic Books

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• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

  Dr. Dre

  People, Black, Earth

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

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• Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.

  Toni Morrison

  Black, Humans, Touchstones

  Toni Morrison, Carolyn C. Denard (2008). “What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "The 8 Best Sound Bites Of Graduation Advice" by Therese Borchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Beautiful, Strong, Women

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Want, Firsts

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• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  Barbara Smith

  Unique, Black, Important

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• I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Black, Fans, Huge

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• Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Black, World, Way

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• There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.

  Morgan Parker

  Strong, Black, Needs

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

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• Feminism as a theoretical enterprise is approached differently by Black women depending on where we are. There are more reformist Black women who tend to use the phrase "Black feminism".

  Bell Hooks

  Black, Feminism, Phrases

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

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• The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Community, Empowerment, Black

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• Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Black, Therapists, Anxious

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• The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Hair, Black, Firsts

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Moon Over Soho”, p.47, Del Rey

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• Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.

  Angela Davis

  Winning, Men, White Man

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• There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Feet, Black

  1973 Television interview, 2 1Nov. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

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• Beauty has always been an ​element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation​. Out of necessity, black women have always had to consider others' perceptions of a certain beauty ideal, just starting with the skin color.

  Mickalene Thomas

  Black, Perception, Skins

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Hair, Self, Childhood

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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