African American Women Quotes - Page 1

Don't let anyone rob you of hope.
Pope Francis /
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
Elijah Cummings / U.s. Representative
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Aids
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
Donna Brazile / Author
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I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Denzel Washington / Actor
Opportunity
Women
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Colour
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On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.
Christy Turlington / Fashion Model
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Latina
Pregnancy
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
Zendaya / Actress
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Cautious
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I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
Anita Hill / Attorney
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Community
Our Community
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
Faye Wattleton / Nurse
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Johnson Publishing has been built on filling a need for African-Americans. This is what's happening with E Style. There was nothing that addressed the specific needs of African-American women.
Linda Johnson Rice /
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Publishing
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
Faye Wattleton / Nurse
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Modeling
Submission
Bend
Bow
Long Line
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Neither
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The reason why I began making quilts is because I wrote my autobiography in 1980 and couldn't get it published because I wanted to tell my story, and my story didn't appear to be appropriate for African-American women.
Faith Ringgold / Artist
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I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow. That was a time where they were processing your hair, and it was a time when African-American women wanted that straight hair.
Drew Sidora /
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You know, women not making dollar for dollar the same as a man is not new. It's been that way since day zero, since the founding of this country. And when you put African-American women and Hispanic women into the mix it's even worse than that.
Nina Turner / Ohio State Senator
Zero
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Founding
Hispanic
Dollar
Even Worse
Mix
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I'm very optimistic about the future, because... Okay, with Audra McDonald, even just on Broadway, they cast her in shows that are usually not played by African-American women, so she's very inspiring to me just because of that, you know what I mean?
Shanice Williams /
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Broadway
Okay
Mcdonald
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I date African-American women. That's all I date. In my family, it was never discussed - but I love black women. Nothing beats a sister. However, when you see a female like Jennifer Lopez, you have to acknowledge that there are many beautiful Latino women as well.
Stephen A. Smith / Talk Show Host
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Jennifer
Latino
Love Family Women
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Jennifer Lopez
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
Mahershala Ali / Actor
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Pushing
Space Program
Integral
Success Is
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I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.
Kat Graham /
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Begins
Unfortunately
Reflections
Subconsciously
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It was important for me to join the White House because as I looked around Trump's inner circle and campaign, there were not a lot of African-Americans, particularly African-American women, uniquely positioned to serve as a member of the senior staff, to serve as an assistant to the president.
Omarosa Manigault Newman /
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Senior
Staff
White House
Women Me Important
Assistant
Circle
Inner
Join
Uniquely
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I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken.
Lachanze /
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Beaten
Color
Dark
Given
Hue
Purple
Roles
Taken
Tone
Skin
Island
Peasant
Specific
Young Girl
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I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Leah Ward Sears / Jurist
Faith
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People
Supportive
Two
Direction
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