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Source: The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power

“Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.”

States Helping Used Black White Millions Study Scientist Cells Officials Black Women Campus Conducting Infamous Technicians Syphilis Immortal Life

Book:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Source: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

“We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.”

Mean Inspiring Education Society Prejudice Accepted African American Limitation Rising Black People Mathematician Black Women Rise Above

Author:Evelyn Boyd Granville

“A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.”

Firsts Black Records Slave Depth Remarkable Documentaries Black Women

Author:Dorothy B. Porter

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.”

Should Able Time Black Education Blessed Available Black Women

Author:Julia Mavimbela

“I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.”

Kind Country States Shows Wanted Black United United States All Kinds Urban Black Women Great Women Working Women

Author:Elizabeth Catlett

“If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.”

“My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.”

Black Clear Identity Black Women

Author:Lena Horne

“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.”

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

“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”

Answers Attitude Opinion One Thing Calling Perception African American Black Women

Author:Lucille Clifton

“I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.”

Inspirational Mind Believe Success I Believe Achieve African American Believe In Yourself Black Women Key To Success Setting Goals Always Believe Road To Success Recipe For Success Trust Yourself Be True To Yourself Listen To Yourself Lifetime Achievement

Author:Alice Coachman

“Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.”

Men Should Black Honor Black Women Love And Honor

Author:Runoko Rashidi

“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.”

Men Winning Black White Vision Groups Victory Our Society White Man Black Women Boost

Author:Angela Davis

“Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.”

Black Rocks Black Women Cradle

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.”

Has Beens Culture Women Black African American Compare Black People Black Women Connecting

Author:Michaela Angela Davis

“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.”

Ifs Kind Running Black Feet Frightening Steel Black Women

Author:Maya Angelou

“Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.”

“I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'”

Men Years Kids Used Culture Black Race Brother Married Jokes Black Women Adopted Black Culture Black Race

Author:Tommy Chong

“The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.”

Black Community Empowerment Black Women

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

“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.”

Children Responsibility Tomorrow Direct Relation Belonging Black Women Personal Responsibility Phenomenal Woman

Author:Maya Angelou

“Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.”

Ifs Mean Black Black Women

Author:Toni Morrison

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

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

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

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

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

Knows Needs Persons Whole Jobs Wholeness Black Women Phenomenal Woman

Author:Maya Angelou

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

“Nothing will work unless you do.”

“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.”

Ifs Mean Persons Self Enough Belief Grows Sides Self Esteem Example Easier Resilience Esteem Not Sure Black Women Indulge Not Alone Stand Up Belief In Self Phenomenal Woman

Author:Maya Angelou

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

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”

“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”

Men Book Desire Literature Black White Loneliness Lonely White Man Black Women Feeling Lonely

Book:The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

Source: The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou

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

Love Life Inspirational Kids Fear Taken Inspirational Life Optimistic African American Life Changing Love Life Encouraging Black Women No Fear Words Of Encouragement Wise Women Phenomenal Woman Fear None

Author:Maya Angelou

“Within the lesbian community I am Black, and within the Black community I am a lesbian. Any attack against Black people is a lesbian and gay issue, because I and thousands of other Black women are part of the lesbian community. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black. There is no hierarchy of oppression.”

People Men Black Community Issues Gay Oppression Black People Black Women Hierarchy Gay Men Black Community

Author:Audre Lorde

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”

Inspirational Trying Inspiring Compassion Successful Relationship Clouds Love Life Rainbow Black Women Phenomenal Woman You Make Me Happy

Book:Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

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

Doe Black Honor Black Women Adapted

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.”

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Book:Conversations with Maya Angelou

Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou

“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.”

“Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?”

Faces Asks Black Poet Warrior Black Women Woman Warrior

Author:Audre Lorde

“In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.”

“I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night”

I Can Night Song Black Music Written Heard Tears Sweet Keys Minors Black Women Humming

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.”

“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.”

Giving Feels Forgiving Burden Resentment Black Women Greatest Gifts Lighters Relieved Phenomenal Woman

Author:Maya Angelou

“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.”

Persons America Black Black Women

Author:Malcolm X

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