Black Girl Magic Quotes

“Black Girls… Stop settling for less than what you deserve. That’s why I stress self-love! There comes a time when you can no longer blame a man. You’ve got to hold yourself accountable for the choices that you make. Choose wisely! Slow down. Pay attention. Don’t allow his good looks and swag to blind you from the truth. Don’t be so easily flattered by money, cars, jewelry, and all of that other stuff. Your heart and well-being is worth much more than that. Choose someone who respects, loves, and adores you. Somebody who has your best interest at heart. Nothing less! Allow yourself to experience REAL love. Stop giving your love, time, and attention to men who clearly don’t deserve it. #ItsAllUpToYou”
― Stephanie Lahart

“No amount of black girl magic, no repeated proclamations of our worth can fully treat the wound – although acknowledging its persistence is a beginning. The ultimate remedy, as I see it is supernatural. I look daily toward heaven for restoration, for spiritual healing. My true identity isn’t rooted in our history, grievous and glorious as it is. It is grounded in my designation as a Child of God, the Daughter of the Great Physician. In His care I find my cure.

My hope for you is the same one I carry for myself. I pray that amid the heartache of our ancestry you can grant yourself the grace so seldom extended to us. I pray that you can pass that compassion on to your children and to their children so that it slathers comfort on our sore spots. I pray that, as a people, we can give ourselves a soft place to land. I pray even as we rightly express our fury as being regarded as sub-human, that we don’t dwell in that space. That we don’t allow anger to poison our spirits. That we embrace love as our One True Antidote. I hope, too, that you recognize your specialness, the distinctiveness the Creator has imbued us with. I see you as clearly as history has, and in unison with it, I nod. I know that swivel in your hips, that fervor in your testimony, that ebullience in your stride, that flair in your song. The fact that others are constantly trying to diminish you, ever attempting to dismiss your talents even as they mimic you, is proof of your uniqueness! No one bothers to undermine you unless they recognize your brilliance.

More than anything, I pray that you can carve out a purpose for yourself, a calling beyond your own survival, a sweet offering to the world. You gain a life by giving yours away. Not everyone is meant to raise a picket sign, and yet each of us can choose a path of impact. Rearing your children with affection and warmth is a form of activism. Honoring your word impeccably is a way to raise your voice. Performing your job with excellence, with your chin high and your standards higher is as powerful as any protest march. Sowing into the lives of young people is a worthy crusade. That is what it means to leave this world of ours more lit up than we found it. It’s also what it means to lead a magnificent life, even if an unlikely one.”
― Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

“Hue-manize the Black girl experience!”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“Contrary to popular belief, BLACK WOMEN SMILE but WE'RE NOT OBLIGATED TOO! We experience a range of emotions just like every. other. living. creature. Stop weaponizing our emotions.... -Sincerly and with as much sass as you probably read it”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“I want to be in spaces where I can just be: be myself, be all I am, be all I can be, be in my fullness and be in all my strengths, my weaknesses and my being”
― Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave

“Her Afro made of white clouds; see the rain drops dangle like little crystals, jewels made of the finest freshwater, eyes like the silver moon. She is the maiden of my dreams, watch her glisten, for she is many stars…”
― Isabel Villarreal, Brown Clay

“...there is more to Blackness than our struggle.”
― Angela Shanté, When My Cousins Come to Town

“Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one's intersection while a watching world pretends not to see there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“Empowerment looks like cultivating the wisdom to make the best choices we can out of what are customarily a piss-poor set of options. Power looks like the ability to create better options. The powerlessness and capriciousness of being repeatedly jammed up at the personal and political crossroads of one's intersection while a watching world pretends not to see you there, needing help, is how it feels to be a Black woman on an ordinary day.”
― Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower

“YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE
SO PLEASE NEVER STOP
SHINING!”
― Qwana Reynolds-Frasier, Friend In Your Pocket

“I am Fro•riginal”
― Scarlet Jei Saoirse, Jayden Codner

“Hue-Man Nature

If anyone forgot to tell you, you're magical.

With skin that reflects, absorbs, and rejoices in the sun oh how lucky must you be to have had your spirit framed and encased in LIGHT skin. You beautiful Hue-man you...some would even say your super powers are sun-activated. Just Look at you majestically Being. You really just going to be out here living in HD huh? You are so damn dope for that! Actually, everything about you is Super...even radiant.

And just in case you were ever feeling anything less, this is your reminder that you were created to be nothing less than MAGICAL.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS
THE MAP IS FREE!
IMAGINATION IS THE KEY!
~QWANA B.G.R.F”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT THE POUNDS LOST
MORE ABOUT THE STRENGTH GAINED
QWANA B.G.R.F”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“you ain’t had freedom / ’til you climb on bus 62 / & head to the closest mall / for a good seat at the girl fight.”
― Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

“give me my mother’s bone structure / & her gap tooth slaughter / give me her spine—Redbone got a spine for the world.”
― Mahogany L. Browne, Chrome Valley: Poems

“I think when people heard about my brother they assumed that I had gone into neuroscience out of a sense of duty to him, but the truth is I'd started this work not because I wanted to help people, but because it seemed like the hardest thing you could do, and I wanted to do the hardest thing. I wanted to flay any mental weakness off my body like fascia from muscle.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Fuel your soul with self-empowerment, for it's in its shine that you light up the world.”
― Jenaitre Farquharson

“We are slowly reshaping womanhood in a modern generation, breaking free from the cycles of Black generational woman trauma. Grounded in the beauty of our ancestors' strengths, we embrace a shift, letting go of what no longer serves us. In our collective strength, we wield the power to flourish despite adversity, emerging as empowering forces to be reckoned with.”
― Jenaitre Farquharson

“I am Fro-riginal”
― Jayden Codner, Froetry & Afromations

“WITHOUT A WOMB
THERE WOULD BE NO
YOU!

@FRIENDINYOURPOCKET”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT A LOVE THAT'S NOT NEW BUT NEVER GET'S OLD”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“..it’s critical for us to understand our trauma and live in our truth so that we can deal and heal properly.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Girl's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“Often when painful situations occur, we bury them down in our subconscious believing that if we do not think about them they will not harm us. For us, it often feels less painful if we don't have to think or talk about it. This is the absolute wrong way to manage pain because if we don't deal with our hurts they resurface in our relationships and wreak havoc causing us to harm the people who are closest to us. It may sound crazy but the saying is true that we hurt the ones who love us the most.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“OBGs. "Other Black Girls," Lynn had dubbed them, "because they're not our kind." They were something else entirely. Something close to alien....”
― Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl

“Black lives should not only matter when we are dead. We should matter while we are living.”
― Ahavel Aborishade

“She was dark-complexioned, with full lips and high cheekbones set gracefully on a smooth face—reminiscent of the beautiful women he admired while driving through small rural towns in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Onyx had a curvaceous and full-bodied figure, exuding confidence. She was homegirl thick and cornbread-fed—just the kind of woman he was typically attracted to.”
― David L. Wadley

“I had danced before, but this was the first time I danced out of anger and frustration. It was what my body knew how to do, so I did it. I danced until my body felt like mine again.”
― Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch, Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play

“There can be a story told of Black women that speaks to their compassion and care of all humanity, not just how well they cook and clean.”
― Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch, Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play

“How are students to reconcile the incarnational and fleshly reality of Christ, if they cannot embrace their own flesh?”
― Lakisha R. Lockhart-Rusch, Doing Theological Double Dutch: A Womanist Pedagogy of Play