“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.” Has BeensGirlBlackCloudsGrandmotherRainbowMy GrandmotherSexuallyBarefootArkansasBlack Girl Author:Maya Angelou
“It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.” KnowsYoungGirlBlackSeeingTvsHonorBlack GirlLeading Ladies Author:Candice Patton
“One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'” ShowsGirlBlackWhiteFashionModelsFashion ShowBlack GirlWhite Girl Author:Hilton Als
“Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.” WorldYoungGirlBlackAround The WorldWowBlack Girl Author:Willow Smith
“When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"” WantGirlCausesBlackWhiteDancingClubsHeavyAssShakesThickShakingBlack Or WhiteBlack Girl Author:Miley Cyrus
“I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'” EnoughRememberGirlSidesBlackWhiteMomDadSummerMy DadMy MomCampsCousinMy CousinSummer CampBlack Girl Author:Lauren London
“A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment” HeartLittlesEyeGirlEvilBlackWhiteHorrorBlueFulfillmentYearningBlue EyesBlack GirlWhite Girl Book:The Bluest Eye Source: The Bluest Eye
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.” ChildrenMadeHomeMotherGirlBlackClassBoysWifeMiddleCenturyFlowerClothesDaughterDressesWarmCirclesMiddle ClassItalianArtificialProtectedCoalNineteenth CenturyCottonLaundryMiningWelshMother And ChildBlack GirlMiddle Class FamilySweatshopsArtificial Flowers Author:Stephanie Coontz
“Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a black girl, it's about what it's like to be a girl.” GirlBlackBlack Girl Author:Celine Sciamma
“My fan base is extremely random. It's the 14-year-old white kid sitting next to your auntie from St. Luke's Baptist Church, to the 20-year-old Black girl who probably would go to a Rihanna concert, but she's coming to my show.” YearsShowsKidsGirlNextBlackChurchWhiteFansSittingConcertsBaptistsLukeBlack GirlAuntie Author:Robert Glasper
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWorldLooksBodyEyeBeautifulGirlBlackImpossibleGenerationsColorHairTypeImpressBlack WomenTextureExoticAppearingColorfulEthnicityThis GenerationBlack GirlImplyingBody TypesEye ColorWomen's Beauty Author:Skye Townsend