Audre Lorde
Related Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women. DARNELL LAMONT WALKER AUDRE LORDE CHARLES BUKOWSKI CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men create... ALVIN POUSSAINT HILL HARPER Black Women and Black Girls are Exquisite Beauty in EVERY Shade. STEPHANIE LAHART BELL HOOKS JESSE WILLIAMS Melanin is an incomparable beauty. From the lightest to the darkest skin tone, Black women and Black... STEPHANIE LAHART The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight. AFENI SHAKUR In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA WILL SMITH I’m an Exquisite Black Queen! I like, love, and celebrate myself. I don’t fit society’s beauty... STEPHANIE LAHART DAPHNE DU MAURIER HARPER LEE Terrorists are like zebras; those having more white stripes than black are good terrorists,those wit... SHAHID HUSSAIN RAJA Black Girls… Stop settling for less than what you deserve. That’s why I stress self-love! There ... STEPHANIE LAHART MAYA ANGELOU ALICE WALKER QUEEN LATIFAH Nearly half of new infections are in the black community. The churches can say this is a gay disease... LARRY COOK One of the stereotypes I feel in society ... is that most black men are violent. LAWRENCE SCULLY Now that we have proven that the black hole is at the centre of the disk of blue stars, the formatio... RALF BENDER Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical. STEPHANIE LAHART The SS were the men in black. He was proud to be a man in black and they were pleased to have him. H... GERDA KOPKOW CHIEF SEATTLE Black Girls create magic, so that makes me magical. STEPHANIE LAHART ISSA RAE AVA DUVERNAY A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black b... CLAUDIA RANKINE ANGELA DAVIS I’m a Black woman. Empowered, powerful, and greatness. STEPHANIE LAHART AUGUST WILSON The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black w... DAVID DUKE The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are ... ALBERT MURRAY No, I’m NOT Team Light Skin. No, I’m NOT Team Dark Skin. No, I’m NOT Team Brown Skin. I’m Te... STEPHANIE LAHART PATRICIA HILL COLLINS He's not stupid. He is working hard in the black and Hispanic communities, and I have to believe tha... MAURICE CARROLL LEMONY SNICKET BOB GELDOF Some of my Black sistas don’t know any better, so I’d like to give them some enlightening food-f... STEPHANIE LAHART BEN SAUNDERS Black Girls… Until you get enough of what you’re going through, no matter what advice a person g... STEPHANIE LAHART The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. MARION BARRY The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. MARION BERRY JOHN MAJOR AUDRE LORDE That's two-and-a-half times what it was just 20 years ago. Even more striking than that ... if you l... EDWARD SONDIK DR. DRE BELL HOOKS It affects me even more because I wondered why are all the families black? Why are they all black? JOYCE BROWN This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are ... BARBARA SMITH Black is best worn as an ensemble - black with black. Black with color is not quite where we are rig... GREGG ANDREWS We kill each other, ... Black men are in pain, and, in some cases, black men are reacting to years o... ROBERT ATWELL She is Black Girl Excellence. She is Me. STEPHANIE LAHART BELL HOOKS Black is very strong this season, especially black head-to-toe in varying textures. Black outfits ar... BETSY THOMPSON NIGER INNIS Black holes, black holes, black holes. We're seeing them early in the universe, in huge sizes, in mu... ANDREW WEISSKOPF DAN BUETTNER CLIVE SINCLAIR Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already ... JOEL STERNFELD We're very into black. Black is the new black. Black is back in a major way. IRENKA JAKUBIAK That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no... ZAKK WYLDE Melanin Fiercely Poppin’ on Purpose. STEPHANIE LAHART Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to... DAVID A. CLARKE, JR. Women are always dressing in black, but men don't like it. Every time I've taken a man shopping, the... MARIA HEADLEY I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos... ANNIE SCHMIDT I think that men are more surpressed then women. At home their wife is boss, and seldom they are bos... ANNIE M.G. SCHMIDT J.K. ROWLING The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant... BORIS VIAN ISSA RAE Black women were beautifully created at birth. We were blessed with melanin in our skin, which makes... STEPHANIE LAHART G. WILLOW WILSON It didn't occur to me that I never named my own mystery illness the spring before (except to misdiag... LORENE CARY SPIKE LEE WHOOPI GOLDBERG When the black woman knows who she is, the black man will know who he is. Carry yourself like a quee... NERISSA IRVING Dear Beautiful Black Queens… Never underestimate the beauty of just being YOU. Being your authenti... STEPHANIE LAHART HALLE BERRY ALICE WALKER LEMONY SNICKET It was so beautiful, because I knew they weren't just embracing what we had done. They were embracin... CRAIG MARBERRY My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?... FLEUR EAST We kill each other, ... Black men are in pain, and, in some cases, black men are reacting to years o... ROBERT ATWELL Most women feel that black is kind to them. When you're in a hurry to get dressed, black always work... CANDY PRICE Most women feel that black is kind to them. When you're in a hurry to get dressed, black always work... CANDY PRATTS PRICE Women conductors are like black quarterbacks leaders who set the tone for the team, JAMES DEPREIST There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do... GABRIELLE UNION JONATHAN SWIFT Bae: Black and Exquisite. STEPHANIE LAHART When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather j... TARIQ ALI BARRY WHITE SHAKIRA AUDRE LORDE GLORIA STEINEM You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk abou... D'ANGELO It is not black people that mess up a city, it is the stupid way white cops react when decent black ... 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Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, kno... 
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge,... 
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to... 
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women.... 
We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, le... 
I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th... 
...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on... 
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white... 
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men de... 
Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ... 
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street... 
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure the... 
The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the bl... 
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith. 
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class a... 
My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci... 
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family... 
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom o... 
Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans. 
I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than pol... 
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. 
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth. 
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary worl... 
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is n... 
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world. 
Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by... 
My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp... 
We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black... 
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l... 
(Walker) told black women that they don't have to be less than they are capable of being. I try to u... 
Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, ea... 
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl... 
It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating licorice at the very bottom of the ... 
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... 
Blacks own so little of the music business it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artist... 
I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We ha... 
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o... 
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first ... 
You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and t... 
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o... 
I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a l... 
The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. 
My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homewo...