8 Quotes by Tamara Winfrey Harris

The world will tell you who you are, until you tell the world who you are.

No one can define black women but black women.

In 2008 and 2012, black women led the United States in voter turnout. They.

The negative focus on single black motherhood is also not about helping black communities. If it were, those who rail against unmarried mothers would spend at least equal time calling for affordable family planning and reproductive health care, universal access to good child care, improved urban school systems, a higher minimum wage, and college education that doesn’t break the banks of average people. And they would admit that the welfare-queen image is a distortion and a distraction.

I never cared about being married. I care about being married to John. I.

Black women’s stories look a lot different from what you’ve heard. And when black women speak for themselves, the picture presented is nuanced, empowering, and hopeful.

It means that black women are neither innately damaged nor fundamentally flawed. They.

Alright” does not mean possessing a life without hardship – being.