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Black Women Quotes

Audre Lorde quote: "Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or..."
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Audre Lorde
Tyra Banks quote: "Black women don't have the same body image problems as white..."
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Tyra Banks
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
Buchi Emecheta quote: "Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine..."
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. Buchi Emecheta
Dr. Dre quote: "Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth."
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. Dr. Dre
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. Audre Lorde
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith quote: "Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't..."
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be. Barbara Smith
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. Bell Hooks
enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the freedom to provide and protect for black women, to be benevolen patriarchs. Benevolent patriarchs exercise their power without using force. And it was this notion of patriarchy that educated black men coming from slavery into freedom sought to mimic. However, a large majority of black men took as their standard the dominator model set by white masters. When... Bell Hooks
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. Bell Hooks
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. Maya Angelou
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. Audre Lorde
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism. Spike Lee
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. Queen Latifah

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