We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons. — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I hope your family still feels the holiday spirit when you bring home your black boyfriend. — Anonymous 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
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
As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the… — Martellus Bennett 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
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
You can call me Mr. Porter, Black boy, white boy stitches, Eagle on my chest and my Levi britches, I think I'm… — Travis Porter Copy Share Image
The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
I've had this sensibility since I was a child. If there was a black boy in the school, I was the friend.… — Riccardo Tisci 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
I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Listen, I traipse no I run no I sprint--a fat, impotent ghoul sprung straight from the cellar of my childhood home--past the… — Leland Pitts-Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Then it occurred to her (Elizabeth Keckley) that if Tad (Lincoln’s son) had been a colored boy rather than the son of… — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
“The attendant looked at Camilo, looked at Link, blandly, incuriously. Link thought, In New York all the black boys who go in… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
“You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts… — Ezra Jack Keats 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
“He was looking at Mr. Nancy, an old black man with a pencil moustache, in his check sports jacket and his lemon… — Neil Gaiman 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… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Marjory Gengler (white American) to Mark Mathabane (black South African) in the late 1970s-- Marjory: Why don't blacks fight to change the… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
“I lie in a bathtub of cold water, still sweating and singing love songs to myself. I put the gun to my… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and… — Jack London 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
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