Top 1200 Black Women Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black people couldn't check into any hotel except their own. And black people couldn't eat anywhere except in their own restaurants.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Feminism should be about liberating women, all women, even Republican women, to be their true selves.

Sexism is bad enough when it's men demeaning women. When women do it to other women, it's even more deflating.

I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

I am for Obama, all the way. I dont support Obama just because he is a black man; I support him because he is an educated black man. He is making black people proud.

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

All the women in 'Coronation Street' and 'Brookside,' they are all so funny. A lot of women bore me, but I love the strong women in soaps.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not black.

Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

I tend to play characters that aren't supposed to black or written black.

We need to do a better job of mentorships and role models to bring other young women along so that there's more women in our boardrooms, there's more women here in the United States Senate and in Congress. I think there's an important role for women to play.

I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.

What makes Luke Cage unique isn't him being black. Yes, he is black, but he has other things.

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.

I don't like the term 'black film,' and I am proud to be black.

I think there is this narrative that if you are a black woman, and you are strong, and you are educated, it's like, 'Good luck getting a black man.'

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.

Madame Walker was one of the four iconic women who really created what's now the modern hair-care and cosmetics industry, and we know about her in the black community because everybody gets their hair done.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

President Obama understands women. He trusts women. And on every issue that matters to us, he stands with women.

Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.

Donald Trump has not held an event in the black community. He has not gone to a black church, as Hillary Clinton has done.

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.

It's no secret that I love women. I think everyone loves women. And I like having beautiful women around me.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.

I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

All my politics and campaigning has been around issues that affect women: violence against women, welfare cuts to women.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

I was raised in a black household and grew up with black homies.

[Hillary Clinton] poses as a feminist, and she's taken money from countries that stone women, kill women, have women . . .

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.