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“The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."”

Firsts Said Facts Black White Class Study Feminism Black Women Bourgeois Reacting

Author:Bell Hooks

“We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.”

People Knows Trying Black Break Glasses Recognition Translate Black Women Ceilings Headlines Glass Ceiling

Author:Viola Davis

“It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.”

Ideas Enough Black Treated Comment Good Ideas Black Women

Author:Lea DeLaria

“Some black filmmakers will say, "I don't want to be considered a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker." I don't think that. I'm a black woman filmmaker.”

Thinking Want Black Filmmaker Black Women

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.”

Has Beens Body Black Media Black Women

Author:Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”

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Author:Star Parker

“We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.”

Firsts Reality Black Generations Century Twenties Legacy Black Women

Author:Jewell Jackson McCabe

“People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.”

People Thinking Reason Black Animal Angry Black Women Wild Things

Author:Claudia Rankine

“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.”

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”

People Men America Black White Existence Focus Groups Identity Black People Black Women

Book:Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

Source: Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

“I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.”

People Thinking Should Black Numbers Attention One Thing Pay Attention Black People Black Women All Black

Author:Bell Hooks

“Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama.”

People Black Rich Female Upset Offense Black Women Mama Deserted

Author:Taye Diggs

“If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.”

Ifs Different Country Three Nations Black Community Justice Levels Our Country Black Women Different Levels

Author:Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

“My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.”

World Political Parent Black This World Hair Black Women

Author:Jami Floyd

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

People Way Black Consistent Black Women

Author:Jami Floyd

“I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.”

Sound Black Poet Black Women

Author:Lucille Clifton

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

“I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”

“The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.”

Wells May Black Female Ultimate Definitions Racist Outsiders Black Women Sanctions Sexist Jeopardy Subservient

Book:Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader

Source: Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader

“Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.”

Giving Thank You Black Women Thankful Being Thankful Greatest Gifts Saying Thank You Thank You God Phenomenal Woman Forever Grateful

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

Ifs Stories Wanted Girl Black Drug Prison Black Women Terrific Latino Blonde Old Woman Gateways Blonde Girl

Author:Jenji Kohan

“Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because they never get their shot. There's so much talent there.”

Process Black Middle Talent Shots Latin Pool Black Women Casting Middle Aged Latin Women

Author:Jenji Kohan

“The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.”

Sometimes Black Breasts Black People Black Women Hope And Faith Phenomenal Woman Never Lose Hope

Author:Maya Angelou

“Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.”

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Author:Amandla Stenberg

“I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.”

Faces Felt Black Community Proud Gay Black Women Our Community

Author:Wanda Sykes

“When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.”

Firsts Humans Helping Black Seeing Female Treats Trials Hated Black Women

Author:Tupac Shakur

“I don't think it's a bad thing to play a character that's not necessarily a super-woman. Even if the character is a little bit stereotypical, as long as the whole story is good and positive, or makes some sort of important statement, I think it's okay. But, on the whole, you can't just do that, especially as a black woman. It's more of a responsibility. You've gotta let the world see black women being successful, strong, smart, with power and who are self-possessed.”

“There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.”

Knows Kids Beautiful Guy Father Black Know How Missing Beautiful Things Black Women Deep Down

Author:LL Cool J

“If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!”

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Author:Chris Rock

“People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.”

People Thinking Play Culture Black Roles Hair Black Women Other Cultures

Author:Solange Knowles

“If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row.”

Ifs Two Black Months Black Women

Author:Artie Lange

“A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.”

Different Black White Poor South Black Women Different Experiences

Author:Bryan Fuller

“I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.”

Knows Trying Young Black My Own Walks Rocks Industry Okay Code Black Women Vibrations My Truth

Author:V. Bozeman

“I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or being a gay man or being a black woman ... What I want is for people who feel oppressed or feel like the 'other' to connect with the music and to feel like, 'She represents who I am.'”

People Thinking Men Want Feels Speak Black Gay Who I Am Compare Oppressed Black Women Gay Men Androids

Author:Janelle Monae

“Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.”

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Author:Ishmael Reed

“My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.”

“Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.”

Bits Black Gone Bills Clinton Barack Black Women

Author:Andrew Young

“I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both God and our ancestors. So being in a country like America where nothing is hated more than the image of the black woman, even by black people'because her womb produces the black man and makes us black'I find it of grave importance to implement African images, and especially to produce media images that acknowledge the sexual power and fertility of black women.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that.”

Thinking Men I Can Facts Problem Girl Black Special Cry Protect Prejudice Instance Awful Treatment Black Women Obsessing

Author:Kola Boof

“I'm not talking about my children's father'he's a wonderful black man, the hero of my life, and he's never disrespected or betrayed me. But I'm talking about what I see in the streets and in the media, this naked hatred that black men have towards the authentic black woman'which is really an indication of black men's hatred for blackness itself.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my own children trapped in a car that's sinking to the bottom of a lake and being impotent to save them'the black Americans have their own holocaust going on. You see the black man erasing black children from the landscape, you see black women desperately trying to get the black man's attention by wearing blonde hair and fake blue eyes, 500 years after he sold her and their children across the ocean.”

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Author:Kola Boof

“Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.”

Thinking Young Certain Black Type Los Angeles Black Women

Author:Condola Rashad

“Here I am, the artist, the person, the black woman, and the stereotype. I'm using myself and it has nothing to do with my muses or other women. It has to do with me. You see parts of my body moving, very collage like, flashing, and not speaking, just laying on a couch, looking out at the viewer.”

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Author:Mickalene Thomas

“Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“"Southland" was not written for a black woman.”

Black Written Black Women

Author:Regina King

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