Black Women Quotes - Page 6

• The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Rap, Men, Black

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• They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

  Bell Hooks

  Men, White Man, Black

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• ... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Order, African American, Black

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• The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

  Jim DeRogatis

  Black, Our Society, Matter

  "Miss Me With the Pass for R. Kelly", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2015.

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• Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

  Bell Hooks

  Acceptance, Men, Racism

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.89, Routledge

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• Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.

  Pauli Murray

  Sex, Black, Crow

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• Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Responsibility, Black, Has Beens

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• I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that.

  Joseph McGinty Nichol

  Powerful, Black, Hollywood

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Strong, Race, Black

  "Aunjanue Ellis on 'Abducted: The Carlina White Story'". Interview with Melanie Yvette, www.ebony.com. October 2, 2012.

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• . . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Black, Intellectual, Mind

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.196, Routledge

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

  Jami Floyd

  People, Black, Way

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

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• I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Black, Knows

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• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Writing, Black, Humans

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Passion

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• WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Black, Honor, Doe

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only Black woman examples aren't Rihanna and Beyoncé. It makes me proud that I am a classical ballerina and they can look at me and see another way to succeed. That is setting a new standard.

  Misty Copeland

  Girl, Eye, Black

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"

  Titus Kaphar

  Reading, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you can occupy. There are things that you can do on a daily basis that will make a difference in moving the needle in individual lives. When we look at the mentoring of young black kids, for instance, the number-one mentor group is white women. I think after that maybe it's black women, and then white men, and then black men. We can make all kinds of arguments about that.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Moving, Kids, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

  Ayesha Curry

  Mom, Hurt, Dad

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any information will change that profoundly...I [already] know that I am a Black woman, and a Black woman who has mixed some heritage, like most African Americans.

  Jamilah Lemieux

  Thinking, Political, African American

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Thinking, America, Interesting

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• You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how I'm going to be' and start demanding more from yourself. In spite of everything that this system has thrown at us, we still have to live at the end of the day. We still have to find purpose and find ways to prosper and make a profit so you have to find ways to stand on your own two feet and fulfill your potential as a black man or black woman on this planet no matter how marginalized or oppressed you may be.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Men, Black, Purpose

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word." She was just like, "Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job." She was just so humble.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Humble, Black, Nasa

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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