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Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work. -- Richard Attias
Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework. -- Ben Aaronovitch
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color. -- John Henrik Clarke
Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.' -- Wangari Maathai
Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure abusive relationship because they are not empowered economically; they depend on their husbands. -- Joyce Banda
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write. -- Danai Gurira
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence. -- Wangari Maathai
It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman. -- Wangari Maathai
Women in Africa are really the pillar of the society, are the most productive segment of society, actually. Women do kids. Women do cooking. Women doing everything. And yet, their position in society is totally unacceptable. And the way African men treat African women is total unacceptable. -- Mo Ibrahim
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college. -- Uzo Aduba
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. -- Buchi Emecheta
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men. -- Wangari Maathai
Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity. -- Eugene Rivers
When I went back home, I was constantly being reminded, I'm an African woman, and so there are certain things I shouldn't do, certain ambitions that I should not entertain. That was a problem for me because I had never thought of myself as an African woman, never thought of myself as a woman to begin with. For me the limit was my capacity, my capability. -- Wangari Maathai
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The most beautiful women in the world were African. -- Martin Cruz Smith
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. -- Elijah Cummings
You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics. -- Kofi Annan
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. -- Danai Gurira
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages. -- Donna Brazile
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women. -- Sheryl WuDunn
People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic. -- Janice Dickinson
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office. -- Salman Rushdie
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. -- Denzel Washington
WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence -- Steven Biko
People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone. -- Octavia Spencer
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts. -- Faye Wattleton
Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. -- Mike Pence
Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them. -- Nnedi Okorafor
I have a well-balanced show. It's 50/50 on men/women, and also African-American/white writers, it's the same thing. I have four African-American writers, and four non-African-American writers. -- Wanda Sykes
[Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans. -- Chris Matthews
It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African Americans, Latinos, and women, who powered our victory in 2008, stand together once again. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Anita Hill
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. -- Anthony Braxton

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