The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Black boys always fancy a mixed-race girl. That's my theory anyway. — Miquita Oliver 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
In my perfect world, we'd have one black girl fantasy book every month. We need them, and we need fantasy stories about… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
We don't know: some little black boy or girl growing up in the inner city might grow up and cure cancer for… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I've been in situations where I was 'black boy white,' or 'white boy black.' People didn't know, "Is he the whitest black… — Kevin michael Copy Share Image
Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's… — Lena Waithe Copy Share Image
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison 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
“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
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
“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
Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others. Black America… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Black Privilege is a concrete motive which gives a black straight male or black female the benefits and opportunities in life and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe 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
“And I know that there are black boys and black girls out there lost in a Bermuda triangle of the mind or… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
“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
“Do you know what it feels like to be labeled a devil for simply existing? Do you know how it feels to… — D.L. Dotstry Copy Share Image
“I think of my grandma and remember that old feeling of being so in love that nothing matters except seeing and being… — Kiese Laymon Copy Share Image
“He was away in a mystery, locked in the enigma that young Southern Black boys start to unravel, start to try to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“There’s a black boy dead for no reason, and the man responsible for it’s dead. Let the dead bury the dead this… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. — W. E. B. Du Bois 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
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
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
