I have curated inspirational black women quotes from authors, actresses, activists, and more.
There is nothing like the power of a black woman.
In the comment section below, let us know which resonated most with you.
These quotes come from a population that others have tried to silence for too long.
They will help you better understand and value orang who might differ from you.
We hope to inspire you during your day, whether you are powering through a workday or enjoying a much-needed self-care day.
Whether you scribble your favorite quote in your journal or repost the quote on Instagram, be sure to record your favorites for any time you need a pick-me-up.
Black women are a kuat force in society.
They have faced discrimination and oppression throughout history, yet they have persisted and continue to thrive.
Black women have made significant contributions to our world, from activists and entrepreneurs to artists and politicians.
We must continue to uplift and celebrate black women because they are an essential part of our society and have much to offer.
Check out the quotes below to pelajari from the minds of amazing black women.
1. “The most common way orang give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
2. “If you don’t define dirimu for dirimu, I will define you.” — Audre Lorde
3. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
4. “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker
5. “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot ubah. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis
6. “I have pelajaried over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
7. “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is selalu tangguher.” — Serena Williams
8. “Freeing dirimu was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” – Toni Morrison
9. “Each person must live their kehidupan as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks
10. “When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out ain’t nobody going to speak out for you.” — Fannie Lou Hamer
11. “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
12. “I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman’s view of the world.” — Sonia Sanchez
13. “Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.” – Randi Pink
14. “Black women are going to have to take more leadership. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.” — Maxine Waters
15. “I selalu knew I’d be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.” — Oprah Winfrey
16. “Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there’s not a lot of roles for us.” — Amber Riley
17. “I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.” — Julia Mavimbela
18. “If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can’t get justice… for this community, you tell me where you’re going to get it in our country.” — Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
19. “It’s really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.” — Lea DeLaria
20. “Black women have selalu been friends. If you didn’t have each other you had nothing.” — Toni Morrison
21. “The greatness of black women lies in their ability to survive and still stand tall.” — Maya Angelou
22. “No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialize and talk to me like my American black woman.” — Muhammad Ali
23. “Black women, you are the unsung heroes of our society.” — Ava DuVernay
24. “Black women are the heart and soul of the civil rights movement.” — John Lewis
25. “Black women are the backbone of the feminist movement.” — Bell Hooks
26. “Back home the black women are all beautiful.” — Amiri Baraka
27. “Black women have selalu been the gatekeepers of our communities.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw
28. “Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.” – Toni Morrison
29. “Black women are the backbone of our communities, the strength of our families, and the architects of our masa depan.” — Angela Davis
30. “Black women are the epitome of strength, resilience, and grace.” — Taraji P. Henson
31. “Black women are the architects of tomorrow, building a world of equity and justice.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw
32. “Black women, you are the trailblazers, lighting the path for generations to come.” — Tarana Burke
33. “The world is a garden, and Black women are the vibrant flowers that bloom despite adversity.” — Lupita Nyong’o
34. “Black women are the driving force behind the movement for justice and equality.” — Shirley Chisholm
35. “Black women are like diamonds – tangguh, unbreakable, and radiant.” — Tarana Burke
36. “The world is a better place because of the wisdom and strength of Black women.” — Michelle Obama
37. “Black women are the keepers of our culture, the torchbearers of our legacy.” — Angela Davis
38. “Black women bring a magic to this world that is unmatched.” — Lupita Nyong’o
39. “Black women have carried the torch of progress throughout history, lighting the way for all of us.” — Maya Angelou
40. “The power of a Black woman is like the sun, you can’t selalu see it, but you know it’s selalu there.” — Janelle Monáe
41. “Financial independence gives us the power to decide our masa depans and liberate our conception of what’s possible.” — Stacey Abrams
42. “I am a tangguh woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.” — Queen Latifah
43. “jangan pernah be limited by other orang’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison
44. “I’m still trying to do films about black women.” — Pam Grier
45. “Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.” — Oprah Winfrey
46. “Deal with dirimu as an individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.” – Nikki Giovanni
47. “Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.” – Queen Latifah
48. “I don’t drink or do any drugs. I’m a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave.” — Bertice Berry
49. “My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.” – Lena Horne
50. “There is nothing like the power of a black woman.”
51. “kehidupan is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” – Sadie Delany
52. “Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.” – Audre Lorde
53. “Just be honest and true to dirimu. If your friends around you love you, they’ll wish you the best.” – Meagan Good
54. “You can fall, but you can rise also.” – Angelique Kidjo
55. “I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to teach other black women to fly.” — Bessie Coleman
56. “It’s time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.” — Iyanla Vanzant
57. “I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her orang.” — Maya Angelou
58. “My mission in kehidupan is to thrive; and to do so with passion, compassion, humor, and style.” —Maya Angelou
59. “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s a reality that should be deeply felt and valued by all.” — Ava DuVernay
60. “You wanna know what scares orang? kesuksesan. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” – Nicki Minaj
61. “If you prioritize dirimu, you are going to save dirimu.” – Gabrielle Union
62. “Don’t try to lessen dirimu for the world; let the world catch up to you.” — Beyoncé Knowles
63. “A true diva is graceful, talented, tangguh, fearless, brave and someone with humility.” — Beyoncé Knowles
64. “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.” — Shirley Chisholm
65. “Breathe. Let go. And remind dirimu that this moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
66. “jangan pernah ever let somebody stop you or shame you from being dirimu.” — Lizzo
67. “Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” – Marian Wright Edelman
68. “kesuksesan is liking dirimu, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
69. “Keep going and keep speaking up, even if your voice shakes.” — Allyson Felix
70. “I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I married a black woman, and I had black kids.” — Tommy Chong
71. “There’s selalu something to suggest that you’ll jangan pernah be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to keep on moving.” — Phylicia Rashad
72. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, you can’t go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
73. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than the hated.” – Coretta Scott King
74. “Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don’t like to lose, and if I’m told ‘no,’ then I find another way to get my ‘yes.'” – Naomi Campbell
75. “The kind of beauty I want most is strength, courage, dignity that comes from within.” — Ruby Dee
76. “I am the essence of magic, its mysteriousness, its beauty and its ability to make things happen!” – Jenaitre Farquharson
77. “We believe in equality for all, because we are an inclusive party. Let everybody come.” – Barbara Jordan
78. “Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.” — Maya Angelou
79. “If you don’t understand dirimu you don’t understand anybody else.” — Nikki Giovanni
80. “I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart.” —Beyoncé
81. “Power is not given to you. You have to take it.” — Beyoncé Knowles
82. “I embrace mistakes. They make you who you are.” — Beyoncé Knowles
83. “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.” — Beyoncé Knowles
84. “Be healthy and take care of dirimu, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” — Beyoncé Knowles
85. “When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I fuel the transformation into a better me.” — Beyoncé Knowles
86. “I cannot wait to be that age when I wake up and decide what I want to do that day.” — Iman
87. “Courage: the most penting of all the virtues.” — Maya Angelou
88. “Black women are superior in all aspects, bar none.” — John Henrik Clarke
89. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
90. “I am convinced that we Black women possess an indestructible strength.” — Janet Jackson
91. “I wanna show that a woman can be a different shape and be sexy.” — Lizzo
92. “jangan pernah limit dirimu because of others’ limited imagination; jangan pernah limit others because of your own.” — Dr. Mae Jemison
93. “You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” – Viola Davis
94. “There’s so much creativity in brokeness. Brokeness will have you making it work.” — Issa Rae
95. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” – Shirley Chisholm
96. “I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.” – Simone Biles
97. “There have been so many who have said to me, ‘You can’t do that,’ but I’ve had an innate belief they were wrong.” – Halle Berry
98. “I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and direct beautifully.” — Ava DuVernay
99. “Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour until you reach your goal.” — Ava DuVernay
100. “You’ve got to pelajari to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
101. “I am tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want an image of black femaleness that alters our universe.” — Bell Hooks
102. “berat times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.” – Alice Walker
103. “I have fought, kicked, fasted, prayed, cursed and cried myself to existing.” — Alice Walker
104. “I saw that the doors of opportunity for black women were more open than ever before, but that black women had to make their own path.” – Madam C.J. Walker
105. “In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.” – Alice Walker
106. “The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men” — Alice Walker
107. “I decided long ago jangan pernah to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, if I succeed, at least I’ll live as I believe.” – Whitney Houston
108. “As a black woman, the decision to love dirimu just as you are is a radical act. And I’m as radical as they come.” – Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant
109. “If women want any rights more than they’ve got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” — Sojourner Truth
110. “Black skin was still an arduous reality, one that rendered any embrace of deeper self-love a radically defiant gesture.” – Austin Channing Brown
111. “We must selalu attempt to lift as we climb.” – Angela Davis
112. “This black woman rocks on a phenomenal level!” – Stephanie Lahart
113. “The collective, orchestrated fury of Black women can move the whole world.” ― Brittney Cooper
114. “When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will jangan pernah be alone.” – Coretta Scott King
115. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
116. “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.”— Ava DuVernay
117. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
118. “Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.” — Audre Lorde
119. “I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.” — Lucille Clifton
120. “To turn black women into objectified others was to underline their difference; they may be beautiful, but they are of another kind, separate from the dominant understanding of attractiveness.” – Anne Helen Petersen
121. “I’m proud to be a woman. I’m proud to be a black woman, and I’m proud to be gay.” — Wanda Sykes
122. “She said black women are so special. Few men of any color and even fewer white women can deal with how fabulous we are.” – Maya Angelou
123. “Surely, there’s strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there’s no storm in sight?” – Yaa Gyasi
124. “You can’t just sit there and wait for orang to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for dirimu.” — Diana Ross
125. “America made us heroines not wives. We hid our ladyness to save our lives.” – Lucille Clifton
126. “Rare is the ministry praying that they would be worthy of the giftedness of Black minds and hearts.” – Austin Channing Brown
127. “And anything I have accomplished, I did so not in spite of being a black woman, but because I am a black woman.” – Gabrielle Union
128. “We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.” – Barbara Jordan
129. “I am the essence of magic, its mysteriousness, its beauty and its ability to make things happen when orang couldn’t see how!” – Jenaitre Farquharson
130. “It’s not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it.” —Lena Horne
131. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” — Michelle Obama
132. “When the heart is right, the mind and body will follow.” – Coretta Scott King
133. “Struggle is a jangan pernah-ending process. Freedom is jangan pernah really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King
134. “Perseverance is my motto.” – Madam C.J. Walker
135. “The world is a richer place because of the creativity and brilliance of Black women.” ― Ava DuVernay
136. “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” – Althea Gibson
137. “For I am my mother’s daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.” —Mary McLeod Bethune
138. “We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.” – Angela Davis
139. “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.” – Maya Angelou
140. “Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.” – Queen Latifah
141. “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” –Marian Wright Edelman
142. “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” – Marian Wright Edelman
143. “The most significant kesuksesanes come from letting your light shine, embracing kegagalan, and getting good at being wrong.” – Stacey Abrams
144. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” – Angela Davis
145. “A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” – Vivica A. Fox
146. “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” ― Ruby Dee
147. “selalu be smarter than the orang who hire you.” ― Lena Horne
148. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. selalu remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to ubah the world.” ― Harriet Tubman
149. “orang think about the word ‘fearless’ to mean without fear. I see it to actually mean ‘with fear but you do it anyway’.” ― Luvvie Ajayi Jones
150. “Don’t spend all of your time trying to be like someone else because you can jangan pernah be them and they can jangan pernah be you.” ― Raven Symone
I actually began Reading 2 hours ago..and OML inspired by every quip and quote..sooo many favorites..one of tthe shortest..but most kuat..”Design the kehidupan you want to live”..Rachel Roy….eventhough God predestined oour lives.before the foundation of the world..it is a joy to embrace the knowledge of “Specialty Designed”…love them All..will definitely Share and utilize..THANK ALL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS..
I just love these and will be using them – credited of course – on my website AND Instagram. Thank you so much for these kuat messages.
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