Famous quotes containing the words african american, african, american and/or woman:
“... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a “slave of a slave.””
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
“If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong.”
—White South African proverb.
“One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!”
—Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)
“A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)