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  • No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

    Please Me   Black   Earth  
    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

    Hair   Parent   Political  
    "Your Race, Your Looks". Glamour's Women, Race and Beauty panel, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.
  • I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

    Music   Song   Sweet  
    Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
  • It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

    Pain   Thinking   Black  
    "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
  • Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 21, 2015
  • I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

    Women   School   Flying  
  • This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

    Law   Careers   America  
    "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2009.
  • Anytime you're with somebody, you become a reflection of that person. I believe the first five years of our relationship was me grooming her, getting her tough and getting her ready for all of this and how to deal with it. The last was just her being a strong Black woman who has her man's back.

    "The Evolution of Snoop Dogg: How Keeping It Real And Being A Family Man Remains A Balancing Act For Rapper". Interview with Margena A. Christian for Jet Magazine, March 17, 2008.
  • I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

    Sex   Mean   Thinking  
  • As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love.

    Art   Jobs   Black  
  • Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013
  • The myth of the strong black woman is the other side of the coin of the myth of the beautiful dumb blonde.

    ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”
  • 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.

    Thinking   Class   Black  
  • Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

  • When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

    Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015
  • My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.

    Mom   Hurt   Dad  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free.

    Black   Depth   Records  
  • I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

    Gay   Community   Black  
  • Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010
  • I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

    Stupid   Thinking   Black  
  • If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

    Men   White Man   Black  
  • No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.

    Women   Writing   Black  
  • Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

  • I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did you do your work in NASA? They were misogynistic, and I'm sure you got called the n-word." She was just like, "Well, that was the way it was. I just did my job. I wanted to do my job." She was just so humble.

    Source: www.hollywood.com
  • I am a huge fan of the Black woman. I never hesitate to recommend her when times are bad or things go wrong.

  • I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  • I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

    Faith   God   Christian  
    "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.
  • I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.

    Real   Mean   Men  
    "Sanaa Lathan tries 'Something New'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. August 4, 2010.
  • Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

    Life   Inspiring   Art  
    FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 07, 2011
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