Top 30 Quotes About Being Black Woman

#1. I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Clarice Taylor

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#2. The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Dorothy Height

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#3. The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider.

Mamphela Ramphele

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#4. I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, I have never been a slave; even today, inside me, here, and here, I am still a free woman.

Manu Herbstein

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#5. 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

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#6. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.

H.G.Wells

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#7. I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.

Katori Hall

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#8. I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Wanda Sykes

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#9. I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

Carolyn Jones

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#10. Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you showed me a script with a black woman character I would tell you that I could do it. That is what we do. We act as if we are someone else.

Richard Masur

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#11. Being a black rapper is like being a Southern, socialite woman: You're always worried about appearances.

Killer Mike

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#12. When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

Alessandra Stanley

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#13. The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

Foxy Brown

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#14. Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction, drug dealing, and drug abuse as being a specifically a Black issue.

Ishmael Reed

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#15. I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black ... men are men.

Shirley Chisholm

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#16. Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

Snoop Dogg

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#17. I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

Lucille Clifton

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#18. Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

Nicole Beharie

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#19. So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.

Zach Braff

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#20. Being a black woman, I've often felt I've been judged by my sex and my race, and I have always known that it shouldn't hamper me.

Halle Berry

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#21. As I stood in front of the mirror in the beautiful little black dress, I knew that I was looking at a woman whom I would never see again. I wished I had never seen her in the first place, but the truth is she had always been there. I was being dishonest to myself by pretending that she hadn't.

Jane L Rosen

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#22. The men know that black women are women at the very least; magical at their zenith and biblical at the core, being with a black woman was as sacred as dousing oneself in holy water. That

Bernice L. McFadden

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#23. Being a black woman, there's so many different sides of us. We are funny, silly, romantic, professional, smart, and we have good jobs.

Lauren London

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#24. I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

Serena Williams

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#25. I personally am tired of being a subject of study and rescue. A subject that is not imagined upon to have their own thought patterns.

Malebo Sephodi

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#26. If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.
That woman could not make toast.

Darynda Jones

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#27. Woman, I'm not Roland's sister, or his daughter, either! You maybe didn't notice a small but basic difference in the color of our hides, namely his being white and mine being black.

Stephen King

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#28. The river was beautiful and wise. There were the two of them being happy in a new way. For here, there was no man, no woman, no master, no yellow, no black, no white. We, we who were, we are the same no longer.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

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#29. I had to live, had no money, and therefore resorted to commercial prostitution.' Smith was introduced to the urban sex trade by a middle-aged black woman who seemed genuinely concerned for her well-being.

LaShawn Harris

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#30. Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.

Amber Riley

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