Black Women

Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:

    Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves “oppressed,” no one would have taken them seriously.
    bell hooks (b. 1955)

    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.
    Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)

    There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn’t bother to change while there are women like that around.
    Ann Oakley (b. 1944)