Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
Black Women quotes
Black Women
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Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"There ain't nothin' like a Black woman."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"The most unprotected person in America is the black woman."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing."
Bell Hooks
Author, Feminist, Social Activist
"Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against."
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"I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either."
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"I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything."
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""Southland" was not written for a black woman."
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""Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman."
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"Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured."
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