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Black Women Quotes

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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.
Authors on Black Women Quotes: Toni Morrison Regina King Dorothy Height Lucille Clifton Taraji P. Henson Marian Wright Edelman Shola Lynch Sanaa Lathan Lena Horne Bell Hooks Fannie Lou Hamer Nikki Giovanni Naomi Campbell Tupac Shakur Maya Angelou Amandla Stenberg Malcolm X Tyler Perry Melissa Harris-Perry Willie Parker Nicole Ari Parker
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My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
Lena Horne

3.
A black woman's body was never hers alone.
Fannie Lou Hamer

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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

7.
There ain't nothin' like a Black woman.
Tupac Shakur

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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

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The most unprotected person in America is the black woman.
Malcolm X

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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

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You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.
Melissa Harris-Perry

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You would never expect a black woman to be the hero.
Sanaa Lathan

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

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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
Marian Wright Edelman

15.
I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
Naomi Campbell

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

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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

19.
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
Lucille Clifton

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

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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

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Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.
Nicole Ari Parker