Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
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.
I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
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.
"Southland" was not written for a black woman.
A black woman's body was never hers alone.
"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
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.
The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.
You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.
