Black Women Quotes - Page 7

• I want to be remembered as an actor who was able to touch people with what I offered to the world. That a young person, especially a young black woman will look at me and see herself and know that she too can achieve whatever dream her heart creates.

  Melanie Nicholls-King

  Dream, Heart, People

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in prison now as we did in 1981, when I left the White House. So that's been one of the major concerns I've had as a non-lawyer, to criticize the American justice system, which is highly biased against black people and poor people. And it still is.

  Jimmy Carter

  Eight, White, Justice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you go to a network and say, "I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women," you're not gonna make a sale. But, if you've got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into.

  Jenji Kohan

  Girl, Drug, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

  Willie Parker

  Southern, Black, Raised

  "This Bible Belt Abortion Provider Is Looking Beyond Trump". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2016.

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• I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

  Grace Jones

  Sex, Mean, Thinking

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• I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.

  Maya Angelou

  Writing, People, Black

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• I existed in a space where my mother was a black woman and my father was a white man. And that's how I saw the world. I was just like, some dads are whites and some moms are black. And that's how it is.

  Trevor Noah

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not. One type of black woman can exist, but also another kind can exist. I also really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves. Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen"?

  Morgan Parker

  Team, Moving, People

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• We have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.

  Patricia Arquette

  Men, Years, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

  Bell Hooks

  Taken, Class, African American

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.7, Routledge

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• I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.

  Sanaa Lathan

  Real, Mean, Men

  "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.

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• No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

  Muhammad Ali

  Please Me, Black, Earth

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.

  Frances M. Beal

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Feminist, Black

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Mean, Men, Roots

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Shirley Chisholm is another one [political hero]. She was a dynamic speaker, and the first black woman to run for President.

  Donna Brazile

  Running, Hero, Political

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8, 2008.

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• The nomination of John McCain is another milestone. So whether black, women, or bald, yes we can.

  Donna Brazile

  Yes We Can, Black, Nominations

  "My Interview With Donna Brazile". Interview with Eric aka the TYGRRRR EXPRESS, tygrrrrexpress.com. 2008.

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

  Solange Knowles

  Gratitude, People, Joy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

  Mark Bradford

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman. I'm a black mother, wife, churchgoer, etc. I am the legacy of slavery.

  Michelle Singletary

  Mother, Writing, Who I Am

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I was raised in a completely black world. In those days, if a white woman married a black man, she lived as a black woman, and that was just the end of it. So, I don't have a feeling of being bi-racial. I don't have a connection to it. People often come up to me thinking I do have a connection to it, and I kind of let them down because I really don't.

  Shelby Steele

  Men, Thinking, White

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Education, Jobs, College

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• I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

  Morgan Parker

  Black, Claims, Like Me

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

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