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“How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women?”

Ifs Children Black Teach Our Children Black Women

“Back home the black women are all beautiful”

Home Beautiful Black Race Beauty Black Women Back Home

Book:Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967

Source: Black Magic: Sabotage, Target Study, Black Art: Collected Poetry, 1961-1967

“In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.”

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.”

Knows Self Goal Black White Childhood Married Workers Dishes Black Women Liberating Lifelong

Author:Gerda Lerner

“... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have voiced their opposition and paid the price: they have been ostracized and branded as either man- haters or pawns of white feminists, two of the more predictable modes of disciplining and discrediting black feminists.”

“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”

“Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”

Men Black Acceptance Racism Notion Assumption Masculinity Black Women

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.”

Thinking Enough Jobs Romance Black White Adventure Husband Work Out Fulfillment Black Women Glamour

Book:Wilma

Source: Wilma

“Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.”

Thinking Jobs Black Losing Prepared Allies Black Women Do Not Fear Losing Friends

Author:Maxine Waters

“Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.”

Knows Humans Children Black Differences Human Beings White My Children Black Women

Author:Moms Mabley

“I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.”

Individual Black Black Women

Author:Shola Lynch

“I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.”

Knows Children I Can Reason Lasts Black Blood Serious Chinese Black Women Asian Emperor

Author:Tyra Banks

“I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.”

World Want Persons Felt Sides Black Color Okay Very Strong Black Women

Author:Brooklyn Sudano

“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?”

Firsts Doe States Black Justice Wonder Events Organization Court Missions Supreme Celebrate Secretary Supreme Court Black Women Supreme Court Justice Court Justice Naacp

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.”

“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

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