274 Quotes About Black-women
- Author Kierra C.T. Banks
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Hue-manize the Black girl experience!
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- Author Zora Neale Hurston
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Once, when they used to set their mouths in what they thought was the Boston Crimp, and ask me about the differences between the ordinary Negro and “the better-thinking Negro”, I used to show my irritation by saying I did not know who the better-thinking Negro was. I knew who the think-they-are-better Negroes were, but who were the better thinkers was another matter.
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- Author Barbara Jordan
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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- Author Allan Dare Pearce
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I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.
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- Author audre lorde
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But the Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and woman-hating are critically dysfunctional to his liberation as a Black man because they arise out of the same constellation that engenders racism and homophobia.
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- Author audre lorde
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This continued blindness between us can only serve the oppressive system within which we live.
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- Author Malebo Sephodi
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What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?
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- Author Reni Eddo-Lodge
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White privilege is a manipulative, suffocating blanket of power that envelops everything we know...It's brutal and oppressive, bullying you into not speaking up for fear of losing your loved ones, or job, or flat. It scares you into silencing yourself: you don't get the privilege of speaking honestly about your feelings without extensively assessing the consequences...challenging it can have implications on your quality of life.
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- Author Nadia Owusu
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Black women," Toya said as I walked her to the subway, "are the meatloaf at a Greek diner. People sometimes talk about ordering it, but everyone's surprised when someone does, even black men.
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