Famous quotes containing the words black women, black and/or women:
“Mighty few young black women are doin’ domestic work. And I’m glad. That’s why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told me, “All you people are gettin’ like that.” I said, “I’m glad.” There’s no more gettin’ on their knees.”
—Maggie Holmes, African American domestic worker. As quoted in Working, book 3, by Studs Terkel (1973)
“The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)