Angry Black Women Quotes

#1. People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.

Claudia Rankine

#2. Just have a little bit of something that you want. Don't overdo it.

Leighton Meester

#3. As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

Katherine Heigl

#4. ...there is a predator-like mental scan that black women have to do before speaking, and even after we've done risk assessment, things can still go astray.

Phoebe Robinson

#5. Shit was getting geological, yo.

Lev Grossman

#6. I'm going to shoot him," I squeezed through my teeth. "No, that would be murder," Grandma Frida told me, her voice soothing. "You've had a long day. Let's put your magic away. You know what you need? A nice cup of chamomile tea and a tranquilizer . . ." I

Ilona Andrews

#7. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

Chief Seattle

#8. J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel ... from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

Ambrose Bierce

#9. Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

#10. As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

Carrie Underwood

#11. He thought he saw a Rattlesnake
That questioned him in Greek:
He looked again, and found it was
The Middle of Next Week.
'The one thing I regret,' he said,
'Is that it cannot speak!

Lewis Carroll

#12. Civilians is one term journalists use to describe non-journalists. Another is laypeople. Or normals.

Dan Lyons

#13. And maybe getting a grip and letting go are not so dissimilar, when the holding on or the letting go is all part of moving on-getting on with it. Getting on with the difficult and dizzying business of living.

Tim Wynne-Jones

#14. Arrogance is shown in one's respect to the truth.

Lionel Suggs