Black Women

Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:

“Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)

“White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.”
—Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943)

“Popularity—The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)