Famous quotes containing the words black woman, mad, black and/or woman:
“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
“Make em cry. Make em laugh. Make em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and theyll love it and come back for more. But for heavens sake, dont try to improve their minds.”
—Robert Rossen (19081966)
“Black women ... work because their husbands cant make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going.... They dont go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.”
—Wilma Rudolph (19401994)
“Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)