When the women’s movement
When the women’s movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the ’60s besides a women’s movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it. Gail Collins
Black Women
We accepted education as
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. Evelyn Boyd Granville
I wanted to show
I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States. Elizabeth Catlett
The myth of the
The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde. Eldridge Cleaver
Every time I embrace
Every time I embrace a black woman I’m embracing slavery, and when I put my arms around a white woman, well, I’m hugging freedom. The white man forbade me to have the white woman on pain of death… I will not be free until the day I can have a white woman in my bed. … Read more
We live in a
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 … Read more
The only crime I\’m
The only crime I’m guilty of is being a young black woman. Foxy Brown
A black woman\’s body
A black woman’s body was never hers alone. Fannie Lou Hamer
No other creative field
No other creative field is as closed to those who are not white and male as is the visual arts. After I decided to be an artist, the first thing that I had to believe was that I, a black woman, could penetrate the art scene, and that, further, I could do so without sacrificing … Read more
Black women are the
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. Dr. Dre