“Far and away the worse toll is taken in the most vulnerable community, the African American community, where black women are three times more likely to have an abortion than their white counterparts.”
Starr Parker
“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”
Malcolm X
“Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?”
Tyra Banks
“But what I learned from my experience in living in a community of almost all African-American people, and what I learned from my experience in living in my own community in Oklahoma before the relocation is that poor people have a much, much greater capacity for solving their own problems than most people give them credit for.”
Wilma Mankiller
“I want to talk to the elders within the African American community. I want to get their sense, and their blessing, and an artifact or two,”
Lonnie Bunch
“What it says is George W. Bush is beyond not popular in the African-American community. He is disliked. Strongly disliked.”
Jay Campbell
“The study is the largest follow-up study of the health of African American women yet conducted.”
Lynn Rosenberg
