Quotes About Black Motherhood

#1. Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

Patricia Hill Collins

#2. Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. Blaming Black mothers, then, is a way of subjugating the Black race as a whole. At the same time, devaluing motherhood is particularly damaging to Black women.

Dorothy Roberts

#4. I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#5. Every text session my crush introduce me with a new quality in her crush, and trust me it's crushing my emotions...!!

Akansh Malik

#6. In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people.

Kris Kidd

#7. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....

J. Fally

#8. So we waited. I felt useless. I felt like I was in the way. I wished I had some nervous habits so I could indulge in them.

Moira J. Moore

#9. And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.

Ariel Levy

#10. Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele.

E.L. James

#11. What I'm asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?

Jennifer Givhan

#12. Sleep is out ... tired is the new black.

Amy Poehler

#13. The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness
Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#14. But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen.

-Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

Ariel Levy

#15. Indra believed that the birth of each of her sons had been accompanied by a sign... With Sarva, overnight her cascading black hair showed a thick clutch of grey. He was the child she would struggle most with.

Rohini Mohan

#16. "Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.

Harriet Monroe

#17. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.

Terry Lander

#18. A 1990 study by the (liberal) Progressive Policy Institute showed that, after controlling for single motherhood, the difference in black and white crime rates disappeared.

Ann Coulter