African-American Women Quotes

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.