Black Women Quotes

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.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

A black woman's body was never hers alone.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.

The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.

I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

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

My hope as an actress is knowing that I'm someone who is more privileged - I'm biracial and lighter-skinned - and I hope it can open up the door for more women of color, especially darker-skinned black women. I hope everyone hops on the bandwagon and decides to start putting women of color in movies that aren't just about race.

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

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

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

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

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.

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

I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word." She was just like, "Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job." She was just so humble.

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

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

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

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

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