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“"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.”

Black Written Black Women Blonde

Author:Regina King

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

Whole Earth Black Please Cooks Black Women Talk To Me Please Me

Author:Muhammad Ali

“You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.”

Ifs Strong Black Black Women

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done... how we have to focus on it... the questions we have to answer about it... and so forth.”

Self Done Black Answers Focus Childhood Hair Aspect Critical Black Women Defining Get It Done

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.”

“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.”

Men Mean Culture Black Deals Racism Roots Slavery Threat Core Black Women Upbringing

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

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

Firsts Running Political Black President Hero Speakers Black Women

Author:Donna Brazile

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

Black Black Women Mccain Nominations Milestone Yes We Can

Author:Donna Brazile

“Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.”

People Thinking Should Said Ideas Black Teacher Kings Bus Black Women Luther Mississippi Boycott Delta

Author:John Lewis

“It was a good script [Something New]. We have not seen an interracial issue dealt with from a black woman and white man's perspective in this way. And, usually, it's a black man, white woman. I loved the fact that it wasn't about the couple being against the world or the couple against the family. I loved the fact that it was her dealing with her own prejudices that came up, her own guilt, her own shame and embarrassment about what her peers thought.”

Men World Way Facts Black White Issues Perspective Couple Prejudice Shame Guilt Scripts Something New Peers White Man Black Women Embarrassment

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.”

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Want Looks Mean Real Feelings Black White Like You Comfortable Want Me Acceptable Black Women Primal Like Her

Author:Sanaa Lathan

“I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.”

People Giving Looks Said Jobs Young Guy Black Levels Military Smart Soldier Defense Admire Black Women Testimony Email Latino Whips Contractor Supervisors

Author:Steve Inskeep

“I'm still trying to do films about black women.”

Trying Stills Film Black Black Women

Author:Pam Grier

“Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.”

Men Black Proud Black Women Men Women

Author:Malcolm X

“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.”

Men World Mother Father Black Space White Saws Mom Dad White Man Black Women

Author:Trevor Noah

“My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.”

Kind Hands Together Mother Father Black Voice Perfect Example Raised Iron Black Women Family Together

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“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.”

People Way Feels Done Joy Given Black Seeing Gratitude Tables Rewards Albums Connected Seats Black Women Solace Joy And Gratitude

Author:Solange Knowles

“I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of "Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething." And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard.”

Knows Wells Hard Black Community Support Middle Percent Okay African American Hanging Out Say Anything Black Women Casual Constraints Middle Aged This Society Forthcoming Seething

Author:Barack Obama

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

Black Raised Southern Black Women

Author:Willie Parker

“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.”

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Author:Patricia Arquette

“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.”

Writing Mother Speak Black Wife Slavery Who I Am African American Legacy Etc Black Women

Author:Michelle Singletary

“It's been interesting to look back on those works [I've done previously] and see all the things that Beyoncé has done and become for us in the meantime, because back then, folks were like, "Why Beyoncé? I don't get why she is kind of the symbol for black womanhood."”

Looks Kind Done Black Interesting Folks Symbols Womanhood Black Women

Author:Morgan Parker

“There was something about Beyoncé that felt like a vessel, I guess, that I could kind of impose all of these feelings and thoughts onto. I was drawn to a little bit of a dichotomy between the glamour and celebrity and the very deep and complex legacy of black women, and what that means in terms of performance.”

Kind Mean Littles Feelings Felt Bits Black Term Little Bit Performances Complexes Legacy Black Women Vessel Glamour Very Deep Dichotomy

Author:Morgan Parker

“There's so much about the strong black woman stereotype that makes us forget that we do need and deserve help and care.”

Needs Helping Care Strong Black Forget Deserve Stereotype Black Women

Author:Morgan Parker

“It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.”

Thinking Needs Hard Helping Pain Used Asks Black Black Women

Author:Morgan Parker

“It's always hard for me to find a therapist who is a black woman or even a woman of color. It's something that we've always been told is not for us. It's top down.”

Hard Black Color Black Women Therapists Top Down

Author:Morgan Parker

“I don't think that there are as many black women or women of color becoming psychiatrists, so we can't find them and then we feel looked at and studied and that's part of what is damaging to us. It's hard to find therapy that is actually a tool for your own liberation. I think we can be really distrustful.”

Thinking Feels Hard Black Color Becoming Tools Liberation Therapy Black Women Psychiatrist

Author:Morgan Parker

“So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.”

World Way Made Feelings Black Black Women Being Free

Author:Morgan Parker

“I wanted [the book 'There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé?'] to be colorful. I wanted it to be evocative. I wanted a figure of a black woman that the reader has to confront.”

Book Wanted Beautiful Black Figures Reader Beautiful Things Black Women Colorful

Author:Morgan Parker

“I think often if people don't have a lot of experience with a particular type of person or a particular type of brain, they can make dangerous assumptions. That's one of the reasons that I'm so interested in contradicting and troubling held thoughts about black women.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Reason Black Brain Dangerous Particular Type Assumption Black Women Contradicting

Author:Morgan Parker

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

Black Claims Like Me Black Women All Black

Author:Morgan Parker

“It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being wheeled by her son waving a big American flag, and then seeing a guy with his baby in his arms saying, "I didn't want her to miss tonight! I wanted to be able to tell her!" And to see all these people, a Hispanic cop dancing with an old white woman, wow! I mean, that's the world I want to live in, and because it's the world I want to live in, I had a hard time leaving.”

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men World Kind Ends Feelings Black White Married Connections Raised Come Up Black Women

Author:Shelby Steele

“The problem is that America is still so racist - I guess it's hard to find another word for it - that they still, the press in general and many people, perceive only white women as feminists. They think black women are black.”

People Thinking Stills Hard Problem America Black White Presses Feminist Perceive Racist Black Women

Author:Gloria Steinem

“God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.”

Ifs Needs Giving Mind Reason Form Black Blessing Black Women Need God

Author:Octavia Spencer

“Black women have kinky hair, and we think we have limitations on what we can do. It's interesting that people think, 'Oh this is the only thing they can do.' But if you have blonde, straight hair and don't change it for 20 years - nobody thinks about it. Nobody says anything!”

People Ifs Thinking Years Black Can Do Interesting Hair Limitation Say Anything Black Women Blonde Don't Change Kinky Straight Hair Kinky Hair

Author:Zoe Kravitz

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

Thinking Important Beautiful Black Natural Hair Acceptable Black Women Natural Hair

Author:Zoe Kravitz

“A Different World was run by black women, Debbie Allen and Yvette Lee Bowser. Lead writer Susie Fales-Hill was a hero of mine, because she was 28 when she was running one of the top shows on television. Going to work every day and seeing black women in charge made that normal to me.”

World Made Different Shows Running Black Seeing Television Mines Hero Normal Hills Black Women Going To Work Different Worlds

Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“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.”

“I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.”

World Writing Black Views Conditions Offers Telling The Truth Black Women

Author:Sonia Sanchez

“Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.”

Believe I Believe Black Capable Organization Black Women

Author:Rosa Parks

“When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.”

Today Black Roles Black Women Leadership Roles

Author:Rosa Parks

“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.”

“There are some universal elements when it comes to motherhood - especially for Black moms. Black women are selfless. Many women think of their children before they think about themselves.”

Thinking Children Black Mom Motherhood Selfless Black Women

Author:Tichina Arnold

“Black Girl Magic is a radiant revolution against misogynoir - misogyny directed towards Black women and internalized hatred. Black women are subject to so many societal messages that tell them they are not beautiful, smart, or capable. Black Girl Magic is the conscious unraveling of those toxic concepts through self-love and acceptance. It preaches that despite the pressures I face, I glow more than ever before.”

Beautiful Girl Black Magic Acceptance Revolution Capable Smart Conscious Hatred Misogyny Black Women Black Girl

Author:Amandla Stenberg

“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.”

Thinking Political Black Identity African American Black Women

Author:Jamilah Lemieux

“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?"”

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Author:Titus Kaphar

“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.”

People World Heart Dream Black Achieve Look At Me Black Women

Author:Melanie Nicholls-King

“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.”

Men Purpose Black Spite Oppressed Black Women

Author:Charlamagne Tha God

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