Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:
“Black women ... work because their husbands can’t make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going.... They don’t go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.”
—Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994)
“This is the black sea-brute bulling through wave-wrack,”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“Women are considered deep—why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)