1.
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
When you're a black woman, you rarely have the opportunity to do what pleases you; you always act out of necessity.
2.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Lena Horne
4.
I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
Maya Angelou
5.
The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.
Dorothy Height
6.
Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".
Tyler Perry
8.
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
9.
The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.
Malcolm X
10.
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.
Amandla Stenberg
12.
You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan
13.
Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
Toni Morrison
15.
I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
Naomi Campbell
16.
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
Bell Hooks
17.
Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
Toni Morrison
18.
"Southland" was not written for a black woman.
Regina King
20.
I was not allowed to be an individual. I was black and I was a woman - and I was a black woman.
Shola Lynch
21.
"Legally Blonde 2" wasn't written specifically for a black woman.
Regina King
22.
I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.
Willie Parker
23.
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.
Taraji P. Henson
24.
Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker