Quotes About Young Black Woman

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

Foxy Brown

#2. I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.

V. Bozeman

#3. I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Edmund White

#4. Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

Condola Rashad

#5. In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.

Susan Shreve

#6. I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

Lefty Gomez

#7. Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.

Thomas Hardy

#8. Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.

Gina Berriault

#9. Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Rich Lowry

#10. I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

Sam Brownback

#11. It almost takes people by surprise when I'm not a big talker. Because I'm known as being sort of a loud mouth. I have a lot to say. But I try to be more thoughtful with my comments or reactions, unless it's something witty or hysterical that I just can't keep myself from blurting or tweeting!

Natalie Maines

#12. 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

#13. It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.

John Bunyan

#14. All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

Studs Terkel

#15. get something from her bag and she

Katerina Diamond

#16. Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

Dacia Maraini

#17. If there were no Frenchwomen, life wouldn't be worth living.

Friedrich Engels

#18. One fails forward toward success.

Charles Kettering

#19. Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.

J.K. Rowling

#20. Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.

Billy Joel

#21. I wasn't young, I wasn't pretty, and I was a black woman looking for success in a business where those attributes were certainly not in demand in the 1960s.

Isabel Sanford

#22. We cannot avoid pain, we cannot avoid loss. Contentment comes from the ease and flexibility with which we move through change.

Helen Fielding

#23. Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?"
"Coraline," said Coraline.
"And we don't know each other, do we?"
Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

Neil Gaiman

#24. Am I going crazy? Am I supposed to believe that God is a big black woman with a questionable sense of humor?

William Paul Young

#25. We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#26. I'm tiny. I'm small.

Claire Denis

#27. If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.

Wendell Johnson