Ayanna Pressley Quotes

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color.

I'm so proud to be a black woman; I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I do identify as a Muslim and I do identify as a Bangladeshi girl, I identify as British, as well, and a woman and I'm a woman of colour, and why am I ashamed of that? And I used to not want to talk about it. But that is me.

I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.

I am a bisexual Cuban-American woman, and I am so proud of it.

I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman, and I'm proud to be gay.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

I am a woman above everything else.

We come from a very mixed family. We're a bunch of different races, my family. So it's very normal for us. I don't know why we're accepted. Are all of us accepted or just me?

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

Even in 'Hollyoaks,' we were known as 'the black family' as opposed to just 'the new family.' But that's where we are in the world, I guess. It's getting better; everything's heading in the right direction, whether it be race, sex, gender.

I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.

I've never wanted to be a woman playing a guy; I love being a woman.

I am a black woman, last time I checked.

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

I'm black, and I'm human. I'm a woman, and I'm human. I believe in God, and I am human.

I love being black.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

I am a black woman, and I'm proud of that, but as a showrunner, I want to think about what makes me unique beyond my race.

I love my blackness... I love my queerness.