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.
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All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
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.
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
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