Independent Black Woman Quotes

#1. As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#2. I have always been ahead of my time.

Nikola Tesla

#3. Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.

Danny Dover

#4. There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. Greatness is achieved when you recognize your own strength. You become unstoppable! Nothing can prevent you from breaking free and claiming the victory.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#6. I'll say this much, I'm not going to lose her and I'll fight to get her back. But the time for that is not now, so I'll wait.

Harper Bentley

#7. One of the functions of all my novels is to prove that the novel in general does not exist.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

John Fowles

#9. When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

Jocelyn Murray

#10. I was raised by a single black deaf woman, so I am as independent as they come.

Grace Gealey

#11. It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

Tadahiko Nagao

#12. I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

Michael Douglas

#13. Don't fear; always extend your hand to help others.

Debasish Mridha

#14. I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Allan Dare Pearce

#15. Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

Donald Hall

#16. You get lucky when you are well prepared for the opportunity.

Debasish Mridha

#17. Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

Boris Kodjoe

#18. I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

Gina Rodriguez

#19. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

Louise J. Kaplan