African Women Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The importance of "small wins"

When we believe that we can win it's amazing how positive we can become.

So, to make positive change, plan small wins along the way. — Tony Curl

And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life — Malebo Sephodi

I don't strive on being the most beautiful woman in the room! I strive to be the most unique! The one who stands out, the one you will never forget. — Sahndra Fon Dufe

If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother. — Denis Diderot

Society is obsessed with women's bodies and I take my body back by doing whatever it is that I want to do with my body — Malebo Sephodi

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent. — Diane Warren

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful. — Sarah Palin

The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa? — Archibald Marwizi

Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so. — Josh Billings

I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

To me, this world is nothing but evil, and my own evil just happened to come out cause of the circumstances of what I was doing. — Aileen Wuornos

Absence is worse than death. — Vaddey Ratner