This article was written by Zeus, administrator of The Social Gods, for Interracial Intersection.
Growing up, I lived in the city all my life, and went to a public school. This was a blessing, because it allowed me to be around and get to know people of different cultures and ethnicities. It’s also helped me realize that all women are beautiful, including and especially black women.
This is not to take credit from other women’s beauty, but there are some great qualities that black women possess not only outside, but inside as well.
Let’s start with the outer beauty, since it’s the first thing men notice about a woman, and draws them in like a magnet.
The eyes are the window to a woman’s soul. Black women have these big, beautiful eyes that grab your attention and pull you in, like a fishing reel. Their eyes sparkle like stars. When I see this, my heart melts instantly. A lot of women will spend hours applying eyeliner and shadow to make their eyes look larger and more attractive in order to grab men’s attention. Black women don’t have to go through all this trouble.
Now let’s talk about the lips. Doesn’t it seem like a lot of black women have these nice, full, sexy lips that just make you want to walk up to them, gently grab them by the cheeks, and plant a soft, sensual kiss on them? I don’t know about other men, but it sure makes me want to. Women from many other cultures not only envy this, but go through 
all the trouble to duplicate the same look by applying lip liner and lipstick, hoping they can achieve the same effect. Again, black women don’t have to worry about having full, plump, kissable lips.
Let’s not forget the soft, glowing skin that black women have, either. While many women are out on the beach, going to tanning salons and applying spray-on tans with the hope of obtaining sun-kissed, glowing skin, 
black women, on the other hand, already naturally possess this. There’s no need for them to suffer painful sunburns, another thing they don’t get easily, in order to have healthy, attractive, glowing skin.
And there’s no way any man cannot notice the curvy, firm bodies that black women naturally have either. A lot of women complain that they can’t shape up their hips, thighs, and lift their butts. Black women already possess these sexy, attractive qualities…and if they hit the gym, WATCH OUT! Total chaos will break out. Men will be staring so hard they will be bumping into things. They won’t be able to think straight, and some will get so nervous they may even start to slur their words. 
I’ve seen many men from all cultures staring at attractive black women who are fit, even with their girlfriends standing right there.
As great as a black woman may look on the outside, there’s much more to her than just physical qualities. Many black women are just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside.
Whenever I’ve talked to black women, it’s always been a very pleasant experience. They learn to appreciate the inner qualities of another person, especially if they are dating interracially, and they cherish the little things you do for them. They seem to be a lot more confident and outgoing on average than other women.
Maybe it’s due to knowing what they want and like, and not being afraid to go after it. I’m thinking that this may be the reason why more businesses are being started by black women than anybody else, and surprisingly succeeding even in a tough economy. If that’s not determination to get what you want, then I don’t know what you call it.
Yes, I am praising black women, because I truly do find them attractive and think that they deserve credit for being able to not only overcome all obstacles they face pertaining to dating, business, etc., but actually succeeding while many others would’ve given up and failed.
So yes, black women, take a bow, show a smile, and be proud of who you are and what you’ve accomplished.
Now this is what should have been posted on Psychology Today. Excellent post!
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you took this remark right out of my head! so true. that stupid remark infuriated me but it certainly did not hurt my feelings.because i was raised like many black women inside strong by a beautiful mother… ttat’s always a good start, weh?
Beautiful article
Coolio…loving the poetic descriptions.
Studies like the one done by the University of Southern California show that black women have higher estrogen levels, so that may be why we tend to have so many naturally feminine traits, like the ones listed.
Black women have huge, gorgeous, soulful eyes you can get lost in. Features that weren’t mentioned but that I love too are black women’s high cheekbones and softer, rounder noses. Rounder noses seem so feminine to me. Sharp, severe, pointy noses, not so much. Round noses have the soft, curvy thing going on. I’m not saying anyone is less beautiful than black women, ok. I just like how black women are all softness and roundness, face and body. It’s a preference and my opinion.
Zeus! You are awesome! What an uplifting article! My hope is for PLENTY of black women to read this, especially after the publication of a certain stupid article on another site.
If I didn’t know better I’d say this article was written by me. Everything you’ve said is exactly how I view black women. I’ve always loved looking at them. Even when I was high school and a white boy wasn’t supposed to. The eyes, those fabulous lips and that round behind. When it comes to describing BW, the words beautiful, soft, lovely and feminine come to mind. You younger guys are so lucky that you can show your admiration now. I envy you.
It’s lovely how the world is changing to allow people to be more honest about their attractions. I’ve noticed an increasing number of men feeling free to come out and share their adoration of black women’s beauty. It’s a revolution, perhaps.
Yes…we are pretty amazing! women of other races seem to want what we have naturally! now it’s time for other black women to notice this!
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I totally agree.
Yes we are truly unique and we need a more positive image besides what the media portray.
Very lovely article.
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I am not surprised by the USC study at all. I have always believed that black women were the most feminine women walking the planet. I have never bought into white women and other race women being more feminine than we are never have and never will. No, most of us don’t have long flowing hair (which in my opinion isn’t a measure of a woman’s physical femininity, there are men with long flowing hair and that doesn’t necessarily make them appear feminine) but it isn’t about that, so other race women can toss their hair in my face all they want (I usually just laugh to myself) because I know that I am more womanly looking than most of them and they know it.
I often get petered when I hear black women online and offline putting down our looks in comparison to women of other races. We need to stop buying into lies and falsehoods surrounding our beauty and start appreciating it.
Full lips, high cheekbones, big eyes, rounded facial features, higher hip-to-waist ratio, rounder buttocks were each scientifically determined to be indicators of higher estrogen levels. All or most of these qualities tend to be more commonly present in most black women than others. Yet, some try to trick us into believing that, although we naturally have the combination of these feminine traits, we still somehow manage to look less feminine. I’m not and never have been even slightly fooled, either. Yup…we know the truth.
I have always found black woman to be gorgeous and it’s great that theres more people starting to date people from different cultures and seeing the true beauty that each one has.
I’m a white guy and I absolutely love this article. It’s great to hear someone say something positive about BW for once.
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Wow! Now that’s what I call appreciation! You sound like my husband! He says those same things. Velour, you lucky chick! How can you not feel special when your guy appreciates you like that! Love the article!
So true, black ladies are beautiful, physically and personally. Many white men have trouble expressing their attraction to black women when I know they are attracted to them. I suppose society has conditioned many of us to be restrained with expressing our opinions about non-traditional relationships. Ha ha, I remember when I was in middle school a group of friends and I were speaking and somehow we began to discuss black girls. One of my friends said he wasn’t really interested in them and I remembered just the previous week the two of us talked on the phone about how attracted to black girls we were. So I called him out on it and reminded him about that conversation and he was suddenly like, “Oh. Yeah.” and tried to reconcile what he had just said with what I reminded him about, and admitted that he was attracted to black women.
And this was not even ten years ago, but of course guys tend to be insecure at that age. But no one condemned him for finally saying it. Why would anyone have reservations about saying that they are attracted to beautiful women? Ha ha. Stand your ground and say what you believe in.
This was a good article.
The girl at the top of this post is GORGEOUS! I am jealous.
Nice post. Yes, Black is still beautiful.
She’s very beautiful. Very cute facial features, and I love her cottony soft, short-cropped curls, too; it suits her.
Black women often have amazing and striking facial features.
This is such a beautiful article:)
ppl are changing. black women are fine and smart.
im lucky to have a beautiful black gf. very lucky.
There are beautiful people in all cultures. However we all have our preferences. My BF is White and would not even THINK of becoming romantically involved with a non-Black women. To him, they are the epitome of an attractive women. Me on the other hand, I date men of all races….but I am truly the beneficiary of my BF’s preferences
Thanks for affirming our beauty. All of the women in the above pictures are stunning, even the one with her back on display.
A message to all black ladies.
You are God’s gift to all men with outstanding taste.
I am white, and married to a black Caribbean lady; she is my everything. If I were to relive my life again, I would consider no other woman!!!
Here’s a word of advice to all black women, KEEP IT ALL NATURAL!!! PLEASEEEEE!!! You are the epitome of beauty, and there cannot be any improvement on perfection.
Black, brown, caramel, and everything in between. From Brazil, Cuba, to Ghana, you are so wonderfully exquisite, in all your variety.
Over and out.
Ciao.
Pablo,
So true… The most beautiful ladies on this planet are black. But sadly, most of them don’t realize the immense beauty they possess. I guess that both black women and men have been bashed about here and there for so long that it has eroded the positive perception of themselves.
Cheers.
Stef
I, too, hope many black women read this post. Black women are so beautiful, and you put it so eloquently!
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It’s wonderful that so many of us as black women recognize the beauty we’re blessed with, despite so much intense effort at tearing us down.
How beautiful that we continue to rise. 
Being a beautiful, bold, happy, loving Black woman myself, I will proudly share it is the inner love of self that makes the beauty of the Black woman highly visible.
Beautiful article ! I have never in my life , everr come across something so positive about Black women. This is unbelievable to me ! ( in a good way ) That the beauty we have is finally being noticed. I’m tired of all the negatives of us being portrayed , when we are so much more ! All my beautiful sisters , embrace your traits, keep your heads up <3
I had to laugh because i realized the majority of the reasons that were listed were the same reasons why my boyfriend (who is white) was and is attracted to me and that i shouldn’t put myself down about it
I agree with everything in the post. I’m a white man and have always been attracted to black woman. But haven’t been with one yet. Which I am looking for a black woman to be my gf.
I share your sentiments Tim. The only difference is I’m a black woman yet to have an interracial relationship.
wow, this article is so true….I am a white male, a high school senior, and I love black girls. I am more attracted to them than any other race. In fact, I am dating a gorgeous black babe right now.
Hello,
I’m a caucasian male and I find black women extremely attractive. Physically, they have striking features and the best smiles in the world. I believe that many of us are attracted to other races more so than our own possibly due to the fact that nature wants us to mixe.
Great website and an interesting article.
Thank you.
Stef
Very up-lifting article and yes we do have the best smiles in my opinion,some white people think we are fat and manly -_- NOT TRUE.We have curves and nice curly hair the mostly everyone adores.I am not fat at all I have a flat stomach.And just because are hair is curly it makes it look short,but trust me it ISN’T.
I think that black women have lovely smiles, too. I feel it’s due to the luscious lips we tend to have, as well as the contrast of the darker skin tones to the teeth.
Yeah, short hair isn’t natural to black women, but some don’t know how to care for their hair, and this is the only reason some black women’s hair breaks before it grows longer. They need to be careful that their haircare methods, including any braids, heat, chemicals, and so on that they use aren’t used to excess or carelessly such that they break off the hair, that they keep it moisturized, and be gentle and not manipulate it much. I’m black, and my hair is not short – and I don’t say that as someone who’s 1/2 or 1/4 or even 1/8 non-black, so no one can claim it’s just my genes (or whatever); it’s simply proper haircare techniques that I began to practice. All hair grows continuously and at approximately the same average rate…and the appropriate care for one’s hair type keeps it on the head. But that’s a topic for another time.
I wanted to give more detail to the woman who commented earlier. The reason that black women’s hair is more delicate is because black people’s hair types has less cuticle layers than other hair types. I don’t think it requires intensive work or effort to grow it long, simply daily moisture and sealing, not much heat, and not a ton of products. My aunt’s hair was shoulder-length most of her life, but it’s currently down to her navel. It breaks off sometimes because she gets relaxers, but she must’ve learned to care for it better with relaxers now. She rolls it into Bantu knots/Chinee bumps when at home to keep it moisturized. My hair no longer stops at shoulder length because I avoid heat and excessive product use. Besides that, I simply learned to moisturize, seal and wrap at bedtime, wash once a week rather than once a month, and take 5,000 mcg Biotin vitamins. I eat well – better now – for my health, but it also had the effect of strengthening my hair. My diet happens to be similar to hers (and she happens to have very lovely hair): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE-njIfrpPE Therefore, hair growth is relatively simple, but just requires lack of abuse. The hair of black women in foreign tropical environments takes abuse from wind and sun, so they’d need to protect from those elements.
My husband does not care so much about the length of hair, just so long as it’s styled neatly in a way that suits your face. That’s what matters to most men. : ) Only black men call to me in the streets, “Nice hair!” Most other men check out other things. Just my experience. Men can naturally grow long hair, but usually not naturally develop the bodies and faces we women do, especially black women, as these are caused by estrogen. ; ) It’s no wonder that women’s faces and bodies are what most fascinate most straight men, and signal our femininity universally.
Speaking of ‘fat & manly’ do you remember that kids show; P B & J Otter. It would have been CUTE because mom was ‘homemaker” they were OTTERS. It was a cartoon BUT it was obvious to me, that they showed the mom as a BIG BLACK WOMAN and the dad as a SCRAWNY WHITE GUY. the positive thing about it was it showed black/white families as peanut butter and jelly–negatives were it showed BIG BLACK WOMAN instead of smaller and shorter than dad. If the real people WERE like that, i would have animated the couple more ‘traditional’ in size. They were on Nick Jr. in the 90s. My daughter watched them
Black women are truly natural and beautiful. They really should be shown more on TV, film, magazines, etc. But, it is just the white culture trying to hide the truth and brainwash many people into believing that white or lighter skinned women are better looking.
Black women need to show the world who they are and that they are proud of their skin color and so.
I don’t see darker women in “black culture” publications, filmography and music videos that are produced in the U.S. too often, and in fact, have heard and read very negative remarks about women who are not “yellabones” in these black American media outlets as well. So apparently, there are black men who deliberately try to hide the truth about black women’s beauty and brainwash people. Meanwhile, they claim it’s “just da white man.” But I digress…
Black women, and the men of all colors who support us, show the world black women’s beauty.
I am a 19 year old white guy and i don’t know why but i used to be afraid to admit that i was attracted to beautiful black women but i really don’t care about hiding it anymore. i recently joined the navy and i will be dating a lot of black women soon.
Hi Kyle. Thanks for sharing. Best of luck with your future plans.
I am a white man who grew up in a mostly Black environment. I have always seen the Black woman as more sexy, more beautiful than other types of women. Curves, lips, hips and curly kinky hair!!! Black women are all shapes and sizes and colors and are all beautiful. I have been happily married to a sister for 21 years now and through it all (being fired from jobs for bringing in a picture of my wife, to people trippin on us) we are still in love, committed and still crave each other.. could not ask for anything else…. great website….
Thomasd – How did you meet your wife of over 21 yrs. Congratulations! Who made the first move? I enjoy ‘how we met’ stories so please humor me.
How do you know your previous employer fired you for bringing in a photo of your wife? Questions, questions, questions, huh. Your post peeped my curiousity.
Congratulations too!
Black woman is really very attractive. But where I born and live – no black woman….
Sign, white men.
Just wanted to say what a beautiful and uplifting article article this is. The website is great as well. I love that more people are beginning to appreciate our beauty. I grew up in Africa and never questioned whether or not I was pretty until I came to the US when I was 18. After that, I found myself feeling unattractive and even ashamed of my own features. Now I’m re-embracing myself but I really long for those days when I just knew I was pretty just because my daddy said so! A huge thanks to all those men from all races and walks of life who are willing to share their love for us sisters.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!… BLACK WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL, COZ, THEY DESCENDED FROM AFRICAN ROYALTIES AND RICH KINGDOMS !!!
What a sweet article! now, to get the white guys who are ‘traditional men bread winner types’ to the black girls who are ‘traditional women SAHMS’ and both love animals (dogs&cats) THAT would be a treat
Diego Rivera, famous Mexican artist explain the black beauty with these words:
“The black race is like coal, because it has a great native esthetic sense, a real flame of feeling and beauty in its ancient sculpture, its native rhythm and music. So its esthetic sense is like the fire, and its labor furnished the hardness which the carbon in the coal gives to steel.”
However we must be honest with the idea of “race” and understand the basic fact that race has never based on biology. It’s a social, political term. It’s a human invention, just like racism was an European invention to explain certain crimes. DNA-science, biology has since 1970′s explained that all people are actually African. 3/4 of evolution of man happened when Homo Sapiens were only in Africa. That’s why e.g diversity rate is highest in Africa. Europe, America and Asia was settled by African people. Amazingly Africa was the only possible place for birth of human race.
As a white male studying and learning this findings i find evolution science as a very capable and beautiful tool for everyone to open the locks of minds. How can anybody argue that some “racial preference” is innate if you knew that there is no real different races based on biology, just an evolution on skin color, hair, nose, lips etc when tribes were moving to east and north from Africa tens of thousands of years ago – and today also.
My guess is that racial prejudice towards interracial relationship will vanish during this century, not totally but steadily. Most of people understand now that these relationships are not only acceptable but also necessary. There are certain biology reasons for “asians, “whites” and “blacks” to mix. Evolution is too slow to win disease like skin cancer (whites) and bone diseases (blacks). That’s one reason for interracial relationship/marriage.
Another reason for white males is the fact that black females are incredible gorgeous as several here have mentioned.
Has anybody seen Skyfall yet? Moneypenny is a beautiful black woman and there’s one scene in which she shaves bond. It’s hot!!
I haven’t watched it, but it sounds interesting. I’ll look it up. Thanks for letting us know about it, Jeff.
I’m another white guy who’s “Exposed!” I never wanted to admit that I was turned on by African American women but I can’t hold back anymore. It started out when I first saw the “Baby Got Back” video on MTV. The booty popping. I had never seen women’s derrieres move like that! It is that clear, medium dark complexion that gets me, along with the big eyes and full lips. Not to mention, the plump round booty. Most of all, it is the African American woman’s funky, spunky, spirited attitude that I love. I was missing out for years because i grew up in an all white area. But you really never notice how sexy folks are until you get up close and personal with them.
As a white man, I have experienced complete confusion trying to do exercises behind an African American woman in a military formation. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t think about anything other than staring at her plumb round booty during stretches and bends. She was deliberating teasing me and it worked, Lol!
@Jeff, Yes, the woman who plays Moneypenny is Naomie Harris.
@Velour, I came across an interesting link: http://www.thefaceoftomorrow.com. It involves layering hundreds and hundreds of faces together from different places around the world, and as more layers are added, the more astoundingly beautiful the face gets.
After much fishing around, I eventually found the (now removed) female face of Johannesburg, SA, and I can say that by a clear mile, that this the most beautiful human face I think I’ve ever seen.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3458/3404385192_aaa92ac70e_b.jpg#.UNPX6KxFppk
If I had been the creator of that face, I’d feel like Pygmalion…
She is very beautiful.
When I was a recruiting school for the US Navy in 1981, one of my classmates was a black woman. She was curvy and beautiful and I fell hard for her. I don’t know how it happened, but we actually had a torrid affair during that time and it was incredible. I come from a very small farm town in Missouri so there wasn’t a whole lot of opportunities to meet black women, much less date or, God forbid, date one. I have raised my children in California and the melting pot that it is has provided many opportunities for them to date other races. I love that. And thank you Val. You were incredible and you really opened my eyes.
Wow! As a black girl, this makes me feel a whole lot better about myself. I used to hate my big lips because I felt they made me look like an ugly clown, and my dark skin because I felt I looked like burnt toast. But this post has really brought me up. Thank you!
I’m Latino and I have always found black woman much more attractive then latinas, white or asian chicks. When I was in middle school I began to grow a crush on this cute black girl at my school. I ended up confessing to her early in high school, but she already had a boyfriend. Awe.. After high school I had the opportunity to date other girls; I dated an Asian girl during the 11th-12th grade, 2 latinas and 1 white girl after high school and I finally got a shot at dating the same black girl I had a crush on in high school(over a year after graduating). Long story short, she told me she was single and we dated for about 2 weeks but I found out she still had her boyfriend(she was cheating on him). I didn’t stand for that, so I let her go.
Post 2 years later and again I tried dating and found this really cute black girl. We’ve been together for over 2 years now and I love her so much! I find every feature of her very attractive. Her hips, her lips, and her skin. All those features turn me on and make me just want to grab her and kiss her. I don’t know why but I always seem to be more attractive towards black woman. I love how spirited they are. Like my girlfriend won’t let me slack off in school or get lazy lol. I also love the fact that she is very possessive of me. She doesn’t like it when other women talk to me and always lets me know that I am hers.
Anyways, that’s a brief history of my love life. I don’t know why all my latino friends and family don’t find black woman attractive. I always hear them saying “..ugh but she’s black.” when we see the hot figure of a girl and they see that the girl is black. LOL I’m like “WTF that is a plus!”. Even my white friends from school won’t think about dating a black girl. One told me once he only finds light skinned girls attractive and that they have to be white. They have no idea what they are missing by increasing their dating options. If only they would give it a try they would realize that black women are jewels!
Oh well, to any non-black guy reading this; Dude, just give it a try. Don’t be afraid to talk to a black girl or date one. Word of advice, do not get turned down by their attitude. A sister won’t let you mess up, trust me. Think before you say something that might be offensive or you won’t hear the end of it. Also never hurt their feelings, not sure if this applies, but my girl gets very emotional. Not in the bad way, but she gets sad easily. It makes me feel like shit when I hurt her feelings. So be prepared if she is a little emotional. You will be compensated with their affection. A black girl will be very affectionate with you when she really loves you.
Hi Velour,
Great site. You must get this all the time, sorry for saying it as well
but have you thought about having a dating website for black women and non-black men? Something classy and decent. I would happily pay for it 