The cops drive by to do some more good deeds A young black male spits a sunflower seed in the air. — Dred Scott Copy Share Image
I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff,… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers who” — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
“Inspire, celebrate, and empower our Black males. Support them in becoming confident, intelligent, strong, capable, and powerful Black men, teens, and boys.… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For me her image, the triptych, became a study of the weight the black male figure carries, given the fact that they… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time black male “cool” was defined by the ways in which black men confronted hardships of life without allowing… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
“...enslaved black males were socialized by white folks to believe that they should endeabor to become patriarchs by seeking to attain the… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“As industrial jobs began disappearing from cities, many black men found themselves back in positions of economic helplessness, without the kinds of… — Tom Burrell Copy Share Image
“Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
For a long time, blacks and especially young black males have been getting bullied by the police, especially, and we've been treated… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
“If the denunciation of male privilege, sexism and rape culture is not at the center of our quest for racial justice, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sadly, part of what Guinier and other parents must prepare their Black sons for is the prospect, and even the probability, that… — Pedro A. Noguera Copy Share Image
“From working with black males for more than a dozen years, I can say with confidence that many black males are both… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I appreciate the female foot, but I've never said that I have a foot fetish. But I am a lower track guy.… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Studies that bring clarity and direction to the black male situation as an integral part of the black family/community are unpopular, not… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“Black Fatherhood is an incomparable gift to Black men that truly comprehend what it means to be called dad, daddy, father, or… — Stephanie Lahart Copy Share Image
I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable… — Laurence Fishburne Copy Share Image
I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Several researchers have found that the pressures that Black men and boys experience exact a toll on their (our)1 psychological and emotional… — Pedro A. Noguera Copy Share Image
The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image