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“When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.”

Together Universe Force Black Powerful Sticks Most Powerful Black Women

“If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?”

Ifs Believe I Believe Black Settling Queens Royal Black Women

“Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.”

Knows Persons Black Roles Size Black Women Being A Woman

Author:Amber Riley

“Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years... but younger black women are prostitutes.”

Knows Years Ends Matter Black Wise Gay The End Of The Day Black Women Gross Elderly Bisexual

Author:Sarah Silverman

“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.”

Ifs Men Persons Black Perfect Married Palestinian Black Women Mexican Perfect Person Raccoons

Author:Chris Rock

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

Persons America Black Black Women Neglected Disrespected

Author:Malcolm X

“I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.”

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Book:Wilma

Source: Wilma

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

Men Black Rap Myth Expenses Black Women

Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.”

Men Two America Black White Truth Is Hundred Black Women

Author:David Duke

“You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.”

Black Hero Black Women Never Expect

Author:Sanaa Lathan

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

World Way Should Black Black Women

Author:Buchi Emecheta

“I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.”

Black Angry Black Women

Author:Naomi Campbell

“As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.”

“When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.”

Want Black Black Women

Author:Dorothy Height

“I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.”

World Ideas Self Beautiful Bits Black Acceptance Hair Insecurity Self Acceptance Black Women Unbearable Fundamentalist You Are Beautiful

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.”

Needs Book Would Be Black Voice Nice Perpetual Being Nice Black Women Sidekicks

Author:Cheryl Lynn

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

Humans Black Black Women Touchstones

Book:What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

Source: What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction

“As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.”

“I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.””

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

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Book:SOUL ON ICE

Source: SOUL ON ICE

“It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.”

Black President Impossible Black Women

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.”

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Author:Bertice Berry

“There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.”

Ifs Feels Trying Kind Play Character Goal Black Struggle Expectations Add Dimensions Black Women Quirky Sassy

Author:Nicole Beharie

“This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.”

People Lasts America Film Law Black Careers Paper Slave Black Women In-laws Celluloid

Author:Angela Bassett

“Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.”

Feels Children Feelings Care Black Community Responsibility Ethics Black Women Nurturing Black Community Extended Family

Author:Patricia Hill Collins

“I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.”

Wish Black Cameras Shoulders Black Women

Author:Ava DuVernay

“I make films about Black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a Black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.”

Men Mean Film Black White White Man Black Women

Author:Ava DuVernay

“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.”

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Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke

“It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?”

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Author:Richard Dawson

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