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In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through her. — Nadifa Mohamed

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

Our melanin will always make us marvelous ...
Just imagine what that sea of sisterhood would look like. Magic! — Alexandra Elle

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

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

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

Magical since Birth. — Stephanie Lahart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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