I hope your family still feels the holiday spirit when you bring home your black boyfriend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren't good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Our criminal-justice system has for decades been infected with a mindset that views black boys and men in particular as a problem… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“…I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change. — John Legend Copy Share Image
People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland. — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
I endeavor to connect young black boys with the necessary resources, which will afford them the opportunity to matriculate in this society… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Black boy, white boy, Clean black boy, white boy clothes, Black boy, white boy style, Makes the black girl, white girl notice… — Travis Porter Copy Share Image
Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky And I must think a little of the past: When I was… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I've grown in tremendous ways with enhancing my music, my ability to perform on stage and travel all around to spread bounce… — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
“She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I have two brown boys I have to raise and I have to teach them the inequalities that being a black man… — A. J. Green Copy Share Image
Of course Black Lives Matter and the killing of young black boys is heartbreaking to all of us. Everyone knows I am… — Rozonda Thomas Copy Share Image
“What I’m asking is will watching The Discovery Channel with my young black boy instead of the news coverage of the riot… — Jennifer Givhan Copy Share Image
“ His one friend was the black boy, Pepeu, whom he held in thrall. Together they plucked finches alive, made certain experiments with… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Humnnn,” he grunted, then laughed. “A dog bite can’t hurt a nigger.” “It’s swelling and it hurts,” I said. “If it bothers… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done... Tibo had shuddered… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president,… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“When young Black boys learn that there are no limits to our possibilities on the basketball courts, we create the athletic genius… — Na'im Akbar Copy Share Image
“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, thirty-seven, was off duty and out of uniform, checking out TVs in an electronics store. He went to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist.… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I have two little black boys. And a film like 'Do the Right Thing' can help illuminate the times for them with… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I want little black girls, little black boys to know that they can be themselves because they do belong for who that… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
“i saw three little black boys lying in a grave yard i couldn’t tell if they were playing or practicing.” — Baba Lukata Copy Share Image
Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
With 'Dear Black Boy,' I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently. — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
“...if a parent does not know how to love and nurture a child while he is young, especially black boys, that child… — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I hope that there's a little black boy somewhere in Montana that never thought that he would see a reflection of himself,… — Brian Tyree Henry Copy Share Image