African American Women In Their Own Words Quotes

This collection of quotes from African American women are on quite a variety of topics. Some women speak about their philosophy of life, or about their perspectives on their field -- art, sports, politics. Some quotes are on racial and gender equality. Some are motivational and about achievement. Some quotes are on political and social issues that were important to them. Youll find here quite a collection of black womens words for many occasions. Marian Anderson Quotes - opera singer (contralto)Maya Angelou Quotes - poet, autobiographerMary McLeod Bethune Quotes - educator who founded Bethune-Cookman CollegeShirley Chisholm Quotes - politician, member of the U.S. Congress, presidential candidateAlice Dunbar-Nelson Quotes - writer, poet, activist and Harlem Renaissance figureMarian Wright Edelman Quotes - founder and president of the Childrens Defense FundAlthea Gibson Quotes - tennis championFannie Lou Hamer Quotes - civil rights activistLorraine Hansberry Quotes - playwright, wrote Raisin in the SunFrances Ellen Watkins Harper Quotes - abolitionist, womens rights advocateDorothy Height Quotes - civil rights leader, head of NCNW for more than 50 yearsBillie Holiday Quotes - popular jazz singer with a troubled personal lifeZora Neale Hurston Quotes - folklorist and writer, brought back from obscurity in the 1970s by Alice WalkerMae Jemison Quotes - astronaut, physician and scientistBarbara Jordan Quotes - politician, U.S. Cong resswoman and educatorJackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes - track and field Olympic athlete, called the worlds greatest athleteFlorynce Kennedy Quotes - feminist who was among the founders of NOW (National Organization for Women)Coretta Scott King Quotes - singer who married Dr. Martin Luther King jr., and became herself an active civil rights advocateAudre Lorde Quotes in her own words, a black-lesbian feminist mother lover poetRosa Parks Quotes - civil rights activist whose refusal to give up a set on a bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycottLucy Parsons Quotes - radical and anarchist whose husband was hanged as part of the so-called Haymarket Riot of 1886Leontyne Price Quotes - opera singerWilma Rudolph Quotes - fastest woman in the world - track and field OlympianMary Church Terrell Quotes - advocate for racial and gender equalitySojourner Truth Quotes - ex-slave, abolitionist and womens rights advocateHarriet Tubman Quotes - ex-slave, conductor on the Underground Railroad, Civil War nur se and spy, womens rights advocateWyomia Tyus Quotes - Olympic track championAlice Walker Quotes - novelist and activistOprah Winfrey Quotes - talk show hostess, broadcasting mogul, self-help promoter and first African American woman to become a billionaire