274 Quotes About Black-women
- Author Octavia E. Butler
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She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little.
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- Author Maquita Donyel Irvin
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I fell asleep with your head on my breastMy soul laying gracefully on your stable and loving chest
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- Author Malebo Sephodi
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Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul.
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- Author Malebo Sephodi
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When you disrupt the existing conditions and refuse to accept anything less than what you know you are worth, you start making those who oppress you so uncomfortable that they will try anything to discredit you.
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- Author Darnell Lamont Walker
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Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.
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- Author Saidiya Hartman
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No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found among ants, monkeys & ruminants. Impossible, recalcitrant domestics weren't yet in his view or anyone else's.
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- Author Michael Eric Dyson
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The artist in Hansberry saw in the photograph of a black woman being manhandled by white cops all the suffering, all the injustice, all the offense to black life. The brutality was grave enough; the spread of the image transmitted trauma and reinforced the vulnerability of black women and, indeed, the race.
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- Author Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant
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As a Black Woman, I define self-care as the ability to safely and comfortably exhale.
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- Author Kierra C.T. Banks
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Contrary to popular belief, BLACK WOMEN SMILE but WE'RE NOT OBLIGATED TOO! We experience a range of emotions just like every. other. living. creature. Stop weaponizing our emotions.... -Sincerly and with as much sass as you probably read it
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