Quotes about Black women

Explore a curated collection of 57 quotes about Black women at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Black women from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds o — Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, b — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you. — Amy Jacques-Garvey, Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey
Women with dark skin are sharing selfies on social media after decades of being underrepresented in the mainstream media — Vanessa Ngoma
i done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions — Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their p — Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls
Yes I am aware of the rules. Yes I can totally see how I err the Queen.Yes it is this very fact of slaying her language. — Malebo Sephodi
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Be perfectly okay with being who YOU are. Fully embrace yourself, flaws and all. Love your — Stephanie Lahart
We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background ha — Barbara Jordan, We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women
I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights — Allan Dare Pearce, Paris in April
My BODY isn't flawed, your thinking is. #UniquelyMe — Stephanie Lahart
Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling fee — Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls
Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many. — Randi Pink, Into White
And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece o — Malebo Sephodi
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before t — Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
It is the very thing I thought I could never be that the real me has settled into like a puzzle. Who would have thought — Malebo Sephodi
Ii do not walk with alienation everywhere I go in the world. I have been to small taverns in rural Ohio, big city bars, — Gabrielle Civil, Swallow the Fish