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I've learned that I'd rather wait for you than be with any other woman when you're all I can think about. — Lilly Black

Seeing a black transgender woman embracing and loving everything about herself might be inspiring to some other folks. — Laverne Cox

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

Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs. — Lauren London

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble. — Hazel Scott

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan — Mary Daly

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America. — Oprah Winfrey

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. — Jami Floyd

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated. — Nicole Beharie

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. — Daphne Du Maurier

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. — David Duke

There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience. — Bryan Fuller

A black woman's body was never hers alone. — Fannie Lou Hamer

When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman. — Brittney Griner

I enjoy that the most powerful person in Hollywood is indeed a Black woman in Oprah Winfrey. I'm hoping to just transcend beyond that. — Joseph McGinty Nichol

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve. — Lewis Black

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman — Molly Ivins

But she wasn't a little girl, she was a beautiful woman, tall and lovely, with tresses of black hair that curved like cupped hands around her face. — Justin Cronin

Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space. — Kathryn Stockett

Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances. — Killer Mike

There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P. J. O'Rourke

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President. — Carol Moseley Braun

Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black. — Charles Evers

Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enameled with grace, toasted with beauty. My lord, she's a black woman. — Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan

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. — Dorothy Height

The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman. — Foxy Brown

I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair. — Tasha Smith

See a bald woman in a black pencil skirt and white blouse. — Ben H. Winters

Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me. — Halle Berry

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through. — Sue Monk Kidd

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black ... men are men. — Shirley Chisholm

Am I going crazy? Am I supposed to believe that God is a big black woman with a questionable sense of humor? — William Paul Young

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel. — John Weitz

Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us. — Amber Riley

I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better. — Brittney Griner

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. — Audre Lorde

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can't. — Carol K. Carr

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit! — Chris Rock

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra ... — Pamela Redmond Satran

I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think. — Halle Berry

If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal? — Runoko Rashidi

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. — Ava DuVernay

Where else but in America can a poor black man like Michael Jackson grow up to be a rich white woman? — Red Buttons

I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue. — Katori Hall

There ain't nothin' like a Black woman. — Tupac Shakur

Never trust a woman hoarding a half-eaten bag of M&M's. — K.D. Harp

I personally am tired of being a subject of study and rescue. A subject that is not imagined upon to have their own thought patterns. — Malebo Sephodi

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman. — Melissa Harris-Perry

I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people. — Maya Angelou

People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do. — Jamaica Kincaid

And like a drowning woman who chooses the black sea instead of rescue, she did not take it. — Tess Gerritsen

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her. — Angela Flournoy

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves. — Yves Saint-Laurent

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her. — Claudia Black

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

I'm a black, gay woman. I think the only way to make the GOP hate me more is if I sent them a video of me rolling around on a pile of welfare checks. — Wanda Sykes

... is inhabited by a Mrs. Buckle,four children,a fat black woman, and myself and a man. — Robert Gould Shaw

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row. — Artie Lange

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave. — Frances M. Beal

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry. — Dionne Warwick

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that. — Robert Black

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. — Clarice Taylor

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. — Anne Sexton

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

In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way. — Lena Horne

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing. — Lori Lansens

The little woman, wearing a pink and black zigzag-striped pantsuit over a black turtleneck, resembled a skinny zebra who'd OD'd on Pepto-Bismol. — Vonnie Davis

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. — Lucille Clifton

I'm not black on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and a woman on Thursday, Friday and Saturday — Gloria Steinem

I just love the sound of a black woman's voice. — Luke Evans

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman. — Mike Tyson

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

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president. — Tina Brown

In the cottage, two old women stared, envy and hope mixing in their faces, at a tall, handsome woman with black hair and dark eyes and red, red lips. — Neil Gaiman

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye. — George Chapman

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof! — Chris Rock

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

From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone

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

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

I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come. — Grace Gealey

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world? — Maureen Duffy

The twentieth-century scholar G. B. Harrison, believing the woman to have been black-skinned, proposed a prostitute named Lucy Morgan; — Paul Edmondson

I laughed. "What the hell are you learning from Ebony?" "How to be a strong black woman?" I — Adrianne Brooks

A pretty black woman living as fine as any white woman. What did she have to complain about? - — Brit Bennett