Quotes About Black Mothers

#1. [ ... ] Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

Jodi Picoult

#2. We had contributed. So had his mother and all the other black mothers who wept at night and saw visions of the gates of hell when they should have been asleep.

Roberto Bolano

#3. Belfastas uncivilised as ever
savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

E. M. Forster

#4. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Ella Baker

#5. 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

#6. All mothers worry, but Black mothers, we have to worry a little bit more.

Jodi Picoult

#7. I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road.

Jimmy Carl Black

#8. I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Toni Morrison

#9. The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Ray Kurzweil

#10. Some never spoke another word. Some never married. Some couldn't look at a woman again, even their own mothers and sisters. Some wanted to touch and hold lovers, but their arms could not embrace.

Daniel Black

#11. I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

Jimmy Carl Black

#12. The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers
a great pity, on both counts. It is not too late to complete the work they left undone. Today, here, we should start to do so.

Shirley Chisholm

#13. In a black and white world, Chase and I would never end up together - our mothers had ensured that - but in that small bathroom, under the harsh fluorescent lights, we dragged each other deeper into the gray - the messy, guilt-ridden space that sat between right and wrong.

R.S. Grey

#14. An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Dale Carnegie

#15. I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Lena Dunham

#16. At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. No one will ever make necessity not happen.

Anne Carson

#18. It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!

Paramahansa Yogananda

#19. The boys wore black T-shirts, dark hoodies and permanent sneers and their hair was an open rebellion against society and interfering mothers. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#20. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity on both counts.

Shirley Chisholm

#21. I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house.

Linda Leigh Hargrove

#22. Judged by the evolving nineteenth-century ideology of femininity, which emphasized women's roles as nurturing mothers and gentle companions and housekeepers for their husbands, Black women were practically anomalies. Though

Angela Y. Davis

#23. And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#24. How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

Vin Scully

#25. You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on a saddle.

Kinky Friedman

#26. I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.

Jimmy Carl Black

#27. God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Will Leamon

#28. Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

Patricia Hill Collins

#29. Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good.

Uzoma Nnadi

#30. I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.

Jimmy Carl Black

#31. We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

#32. She'd given it away once; she never would again. Life took things from you: mothers, friends, sometimes even choices. But that wasn't the same as giving parts of yourself away. It was her voice to use: to say no and yes and "I love you" with, to sing with, even to hold silent.

Jennifer Mason-Black

#33. We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.

Jimmy Carl Black

#34. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Axl Rose