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)