Black Women Hardship Quotes

Through Miss Behave I am attempting to reclaim my voice one word at a time and live my truth to the best of my ability ~ Malebo Sephodi

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect. ~ Michaela Angela Davis

Uplift. Inspire. Elevate. Black Women Win! ~ Stephanie Lahart

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. ~ Dennis Rodman

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. ~ Allan Dare Pearce

How can we teach our children to respect Black women if Black women don't respect Black women? ~ T.D. Jakes

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health. ~ Bell Hooks

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ~ Audre Lorde

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect. ~ Tupac Shakur

I am a Black woman... Exquisite from the inside out. ~ Stephanie Lahart

People say I'm into black women. Robert De Niro is into black women. I'm just into women who are real, and they happen to be black. ~ Bill Maher

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth. ~ Tyler Perry

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. ~ Tyra Banks

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose. ~ Toni Morrison

Black Barbie? Nah… I'm an unapologetic Exquisite Black Queen who's intelligent, creative, courageous, confident, ambitious, and authentic. My beauty is just a bonus! ~ Stephanie Lahart

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ... ~ June Jordan

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. 'Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.' First of all, my girl is black: she's Jamaican. ~ Kevin Hart

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. ~ Bell Hooks

Dear Black Girls and Black Women… WE matter. Our presence matters, our voices matter, and our votes matter. Make no mistake about it… WE ARE POWERFUL. We disrupt the norm and change the system for the betterment of ALL people. ~ Stephanie Lahart

Reinvent yourself over and over and over and over and over until you find home. There is no timeline for the soul. ~ Malebo Sephodi

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women ... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ~ Bell Hooks

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children. ~ Hill Harper

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. ~ Bell Hooks

Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut. ~ Queen Latifah

Let's just say its not a stereotype that black women are less submissive and harder to deal with. Being around all them black women made me really miss my wife. ~ Taye Diggs

The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. ~ W.E.B. Du Bois

I suggest that Black feminist thought consists of specialised knowledge created by African-American women which clarifies a standpoint of and for Black women. In other words, Black feminist thought encompasses theoretical interpretations of Black women's reality by those who live it. ~ Patricia Hill Collins

The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. ~ Issa Rae

Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing. ~ Toni Morrison

I liked the fact that there were so many different representations of black women and black men in the movie. It wasn't like we all had the same agenda. ~ Sanaa Lathan

Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one. ~ Daniel Black

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it. ~ Gail Collins

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. ~ Miriam Makeba

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. ~ Buchi Emecheta

Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children. ~ Patricia Hill Collins

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society. ~ Angela Davis

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else. ~ Claudia Rankine

This Queen right here is educated and beautiful with a degree. ~ Stephanie Lahart

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. ~ Gore Vidal

Black women were beautifully created at birth. We were blessed with melanin in our skin, which makes us Exquisitely Beautiful. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, our melanin is Fiercely Poppin' on Purpose. There's no denying it, a Black woman's beauty is elegant! We are Black Queens... Uniquely perfect, flaws and all! ~ Stephanie Lahart

I want to live in a society where we are all liberated. This is what my feminism looks like ~ Malebo Sephodi

I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud. ~ Michael Ian Black

Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias. ~ Pauli Murray

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

I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts. ~ Karen Black

Every hardship is relief,there is one hardship with two relief so one hardship can't over come two relief ~ Iqbal Ahmed

Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women. ~ Darnell Lamont Walker

The modern church encourages African-American women to keep others' vineyards, while neglecting their own, in two ways: by venerating Black women's performance of strength and depending upon women's labor and financial support to maintain the church, without providing equal opportunity for Black women to exercise their gifts in ministerial leadership; and by distorting Scripture in a way that encourages suffering and self-sacrifice among Black women. ~ Chanequa Walker-Barnes

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. ~ Audre Lorde

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.' ~ G. Willow Wilson

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people
especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here. ~ Alice Walker

The majority of black women are unmarried today, including 70 percent of professional black women. ~ Michelle Alexander

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. ~ Bell Hooks

Accept it… Black women are beautiful, pretty, gorgeous, appealing, elegant, attractive, lovely, stunning, and exquisite. ~ Stephanie Lahart

In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women who argued for the old hierarchy and against universal adult suffrage - often on religious grounds. ~ Gloria Steinem

Patiently persevere in the face of hardship hoping for a good outcome because you never know how many dead hearts you will bring to life in the process. No hardship lasts forever. There is always an end. ~ Babar Ahmad

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity. ~ Zhang Xin

I have this problem where it's like'I can never stop thinking. For instance, I find myself obsessing over the treatment of black women and girls by black men'the fact that black men have a special prejudice against black women and generally don't protect them or attempt to understand them, and I cry an awful lot about that. ~ Kola Boof

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism. ~ Spike Lee

Back home the black women are all beautiful ~ Amiri Baraka

No, I'm NOT Team Light Skin. No, I'm NOT Team Dark Skin. No, I'm NOT Team Brown Skin. I'm Team Melanin because we are one! I'm a Black Queen that celebrates ALL shades of Black beauty. Black women and Black girls are equally beautiful in EVERY shade. Our skin tones are Exquisite Beauty. Respect the complexion! ~ Stephanie Lahart

Exquisite... I was born this way! ~ Stephanie Lahart

Waves are like women, you can never get enough of them, always want a better, more dangerous one, and occasionally you get dumped. ~ Robert Black

No one can define black women but black women. ~ Tamara Winfrey Harris

If indeed all lives mattered, we would not need to emphatically proclaim that "Black Lives Matter." Or, as we discover on the BLM website: Black Women Matter, Black Girls Matter, Black Gay Lives Matter, Black Bi Lives Matter, Black Boys Matter, Black Queer Lives Matter, Black Men Matter, Black Lesbians Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Black Immigrants Matter, Black Incarcerated Lives Matter. Black Differently Abled Lives Matter. Yes, Black Lives Matter, Latino/Asian American/Native American/Muslim/Poor and Working-Class White Peoples Lives matter. There are many more specific instances we would have to nane before we can ethically and comfortably claim that All Lives Matter. ~ Angela Y. Davis

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet. ~ Maya Angelou

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. ~ Jim DeRogatis

Black women's stories look a lot different from what you've heard. And when black women speak for themselves, the picture presented is nuanced, empowering, and hopeful. ~ Tamara Winfrey Harris

There is no success without hardship. ~ Sophocles

I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me. ~ Iman

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women. ~ Ava DuVernay

Dear Black Women… Save, Invest, and Spend Less. Save because you just never know what will come up. This will save you from having to borrow from friends, family, or going to get a payday loan. Invest so that you'll have something of value to show for. Investing also helps in building WEALTH. Spend less so that you're not broke, living paycheck to paycheck, and/or in a lot of debt. Don't allow money to control you. Take charge! Keep, and/or get your finances in order. Value your money and be mindful of how and what you're spending. ~ Stephanie Lahart

The choice in this life is not between easy and hard, but between kinds of hardship, between a hardship that gives birth to wisdom, compassion and mercy, and the hardship that keeps on replicating itself to no end. ~ Noam Shpancer

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. ~ Tahir Shah

Women are a weird subspecies. But it must be hard walking around with a big fleshy slit in your body that keeps saying fuck me! ~ Robert Black

Misbehaviour does not require a cape, shades or a bazooka. It is in decisions we make that challenge the notions adopted to keep us well behaved ~ Malebo Sephodi

Governing means governing all of the people, no matter what demographic it is, whether it'd be black, white, women, straight, gay, Republican. ~ Don Lemon

Don't let anyone rob you of hope. ~ Pope Francis

Everyone has hardship. Everyone has struggle. No one is immune. You can live this life focusing on your hardship and struggle. Or, you can choose to make the most of each and every moment you are gifted with. ~ Akiroq Brost

If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out. ~ Matthew Desmond

Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know ... because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But mostly, I learned that elderly black women are wise beyond their years ... but younger black women are prostitutes. ~ Sarah Silverman

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. ~ Rumi

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. ~ Alice Walker

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams. ~ Misty Copeland

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. ~ Barbara Smith

In Milwaukee's poorest black neighborhoods, eviction had become commonplace- especailly for women. In those neighborhoods, 1 female renter in 17 was evicted through the court system each year, which was twice as often as men from those neighborhoods ad nine times as often as women from the city's poorest white areas. Women from black neighborhoods made up 9 percent of Milwaukee's population and 30 percent of its evicted tenants.
If incarceration has come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locled out. ~ Matthew Desmond

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too. ~ Nicole Beharie

Women feel the most secure when they see true love for themselves in their partner's eyes. And for them, security equals happiness. ~ Robert Black

The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger. ~ Billy Graham

We black women must forgive black men for not protecting us against slavery, racism, white men, our confusion, their doubts. And black men must forgive black women for our own sometimes dubious choices, divided loyalties, and lack of belief in their possibilities. Only when our sons and our daughters know that forgiveness is real, existent, and that those who love them practice it, can they form bonds as men and women that really can save and change our community. ~ Marita Golden

According to the telephone poll, a full 40 percent of black women felt that the use of physical force was appropriate in a marriage. And black women especially could not abide Marcia Clark. ~ Jeffrey Toobin

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. ~ Ben Horowitz

Bessie Stringfield epitomised the Carefree Scamp. She wasn't trying to be any sort of inspiration for black women or female bikers. She was just living her life. It was her road and she knew that no one else could ride it for her ~ Karl Wiggins

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see! ~ Shakira

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength. ~ Dorothy Height

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. ~ Audre Lorde

Dear Exquisite Black Queen... No matter what shade of MELANIN you are, know that your skin tone is brilliant. You, my Queen, are phenomenally made! ~ Stephanie Lahart

Dealing with white people faux pas as a black woman is tricky: if you get upset, you can be quickly be labeled as the "angry black girl"; if you're too passive, it seems like you're give permission, or letting racism slide. ~ Franchesca Ramsey