Black Lesbian Quotes

#1. When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

Brittney Griner

#2. Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

Edward Abbey

#3. Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I can't be the poster child for everything. At least with the LGBT issues we get a parade and a float and it's a party.

Wanda Sykes

#4. I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

Audre Lorde

#5. There'll be a black lesbian in the White House before I'm James Bond.

Rupert Everett

#6. As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Audre Lorde

#7. I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better.

Brittney Griner

#8. Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Desiderius Erasmus

#9. his bloody hands as he rode silently in the back of the transport van back toward the juvenile detention

Scott Pratt

#10. we will always be at the mercy of the world and of circumstances beyond our control.

Chaya Rao

#11. The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason.

Thomas Paine

#12. Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)

Suzanne Collins

#13. I'm searching for some exit poll data from California. I'll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

Dan Savage

#14. The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt

Jesse Jackson

#15. Sam, that's a great concept. And maybe you believe it. But I'm black and I'm a lesbian, so let me tell you: From what I know? Personal experience? There are always lines.

Michael Grant

#16. AARP knows the future is bright for a generation that's going to remain healthy and vital for 10, 20, 30, 40 more years. AARP has the information and resources people need throughout their process of reinvention.

Jane Pauley

#17. I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, i'll be nice to you. Simple as that!

Eminem

#18. If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me.
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office: A Memoir

Jen Lancaster

#19. Perhaps ... I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself
a Black woman warrior poet doing my work
come to ask you, are you doing yours?

Audre Lorde

#20. Love is a word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes
into a knot of flame
I am Black
because I come from the earth's inside
take my word for jewel
in the open light.

Audre Lorde

#21. In writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and not its governor ...

Philip Pullman

#22. Filling life exceedingly is called ominous.

Laozi

#23. They were married by a lesbian justice of the peace while their friends played a guitar-feedback-heavy version of the "Wedding March." The bride wore a white-fringed flapper dress and black spiked boots. The groom wore leather.

Gayle Forman

#24. Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.

Bayard Rustin

#25. How intoxicating to feel like God the Father and to hand out definitive testimonials of bad character and habits.

Albert Camus

#26. I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

Sloane Crosley

#27. The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.

Jeremy Clarkson

#28. First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like her mouth, I thought I had turned into a man

Alice Walker

#29. No real man should ever feel threatened by a lesbian. After all, she is just licking it clean, before I get there.

Robert Black

#30. Perhaps our matching black outfits - even Phoebe wears dark colors - convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists

Helen Smith

#31. Nd it occurs to me how fragile our lives are, how at any moment the sky can open and drown us, the earth can open and swallow us. I think of all the intricate ways our bodies can betray us, the accidents and the atrocities, the missteps and the misunderstandings.

A. Manette Ansay

#32. The appeal to the 'natural' is one of the most powerful aspects of common-sense thinking but it is a way of understanding social relations which denies history and the possibility of change for the future.

Chris Weedon