Browsing Topic Best Black Women Quotes

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

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.

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as ‘men,’ as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.

When I see the leadership roles black women are taking today I am very encouraged.

A white woman has only one handicap to overcome – that of sex. I have two – both sex and race. … Colored men have only one – that of race. Colored women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex.

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

This is a career about images. It’s celluloid; they last for ever. I’m a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we’re free on paper and in law, I’m not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

I’m tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

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

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

My mother really held the family together. She was a perfect example of the kind of black woman I would love to see again. She ruled my father with an iron hand, yet she barely ever raised her voice above a whisper.

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

Black women are supposed to be ‘strong,’ but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don’t think it’s a problem that’s specific to black women. I think it’s a problem that’s specific to movie-making in America.

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.

Whenever black women have a point, they’re characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they’re talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren’t at a place yet where they are able to learn … And it’s exactly what I’m trying to fight.

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

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

At this time I’d like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.

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

I make films about Black women and it doesn’t mean that you can’t see them as a Black man, doesn’t mean that he can’t see them as a white man or she can’t see them as a white woman.

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.

I don’t drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don’t need them. I’m a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don’t need another illusion.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack.

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.