African American Women Quotes
The best sayings about African American Women that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Don't let anyone rob you of hope.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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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.
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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.
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
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The potential for greatness lives within us all.
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I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.
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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.
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I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!
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Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.
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I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.
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Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
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People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
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... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.
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African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
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If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
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Etta Semple Activist
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Eugenie Bouchard Tennis player
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