The philosophy of cherishing motherhood flowed throughout the community of feminists of color. During the age of the Harlem Renaissance, Angelina Weld Grimké, born this day in 1880, wrote, "Ah, gift of Motherhood! Ah, precious boon to woman, reaping priceless joy, through...” 
“...weary pain!" Grimké — whose mother was white and whose father was the son of a white slave owner and an enslaved mixed-race woman of color — never had any children herself but recognized motherhood as a bond between both white women and women of color:
“If anything can make all women sisters beneath their skin, it is motherhood. If, then the white women of this country could, see, feel, understand just what effect their prejudice and the prejudice of their fathers, brothers, husbands, sons were having on the souls...”
“...of the colored mothers everywhere, and upon the mothers that are to be, a great power to effect public opinion would be set free and the battle would be half won."
A few of Grimké's writings feature gruesome portrayals of abortion during her day and age. Abortion was depicted as one of the most horrible tools used by white men to exploit and torture women of color. During a difficult pregnancy, one of Grimké's characters warns:
"There is a time coming — and soon — when no colored man — no colored woman — no colored child, born or unborn — will be safe — in this country."
Grimké considered the unborn a source of hope and growth, especially for people of color — and she considered the taking of unborn life a sign of terrible injustice and oppression.
