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The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. — Daphne Du Maurier

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us. — Cheryl Lynn

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal

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

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. — Bessie Coleman

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole

Women are a weird subspecies. But it must be hard walking around with a big fleshy slit in your body that keeps saying fuck me! — Robert Black

Are you anti-black?
I'm anti-everything. — Charles Bukowski

Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he'd never heard of Adolf Hitler. — Jane Sunday

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan

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

We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too. — Monica Millner

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. — Margot Lee Shetterly

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. — Mara Brock Akil

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

I am art.
I am authentic.
I am love.
I am me. — Malebo Sephodi

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

Magical since Birth. — Stephanie Lahart

And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy. — Toni Morrison

He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it. — Crystal Woods

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits. — Maya Angelou

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things. — Claudia Rankine

The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women. — Michelle Alexander

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican. — Don Lemon

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much" ... No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. — Bonnie Raitt

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

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us. — Jami Floyd

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray. — Neal Shusterman

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ... — June Jordan

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there. — Stella McCartney

I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts. — Karen Black

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet. — Maya Angelou

Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flattering on all women. — Twiggy

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

Black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed
by anyone. — Joycelyn Elders

I order to avoid falling into the product junkie traps, it's good to know your go-to styling products. — Monica Millner

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood. — Patricia Hill Collins

Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. — Barbara Smith

Don't let anyone rob you of hope. — Pope Francis

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women. — Darnell Lamont Walker

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. — Jim DeRogatis

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. — Randi Pink

I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever. — Scarlet Risque

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women? — T.D. Jakes

Women are like bars of soap. After a while they lose their freshness, become worn and a bit hairy. — Robert Black

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. — Dennis Rodman

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.' — Lupita Nyong'o

You fainted,' Tom said.
Reg coughed.
No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out. — N.D. Wilson

People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black. — Bill Maher

A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. — Dorothy B. Porter

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

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color. — Carolina Herrera

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else. — Claudia Rankine

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 women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. — Tyra Banks

I like my coffee black, my whiskey straight and my women intelligent and challenging. — Raymond Bolton

For many women, by the time they realize how beautiful they were, it is too late. — Robert Black

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women. — Katori Hall

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

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them. — Runoko Rashidi

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' — Marilyn Monroe

Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you. — Amy Jacques-Garvey

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. — Bell Hooks

I like my coffee like I like my women - Black and Strong. — Paul Howell

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

Waves are like women, you can never get enough of them, always want a better, more dangerous one, and occasionally you get dumped. — Robert Black

Women are always angsting over things. Guys don't do that. — Cathie Black

The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community. — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world. — Holly Black

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

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. — Bell Hooks

Black women were created of
brown sugar and warm honey.
the sweetest thing to bless the earth.
be wary of anyone who tells you otherwise. — Alexandra Elle

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure. — Aunjanue Ellis

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

You may be amazed that you are still unique and beautiful as your natural self. Only you can decide if this style is for you. — Monica Millner

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde

I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives. — Solange Knowles

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack. — Andrew Young

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs. — Spike Lee

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks

Dating black women will ruin your life — Terrence Howard

You can fall, but you can rise also. — Angelique Kidjo

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. — Miriam Makeba

From the beginning, the imported black men and women resisted their enslavement. Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and — Anonymous

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door? — Tyra Banks

It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought I could be me? — Malebo Sephodi

I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud. — Michael Ian Black

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress. — JoAnn Spears

Big black guys fear air travel almost as much as old white women fear big black guys. — Dov Davidoff

I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me. — Lee Daniels

I done forgot all abt words
aint got no definitions — Ntozake Shange

You think love is black and white. All women think that. And they're wrong. Women are really intelligent except for when they're being really stupid. — Liane Moriarty

Sex. A good-looking intense man with black, hungry eyes, and she fell like a lovesick calf. Sex. It ruined many otherwise sane women. — Christine Feehan

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman

But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry