We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So… — Quentin Tarantino 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
“Today, it is predicted that nationwide one in three black males and one in six Hispanic males will be incarcerated in their… — Dominique DuBois Gilliard Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and… — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
“By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery,… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Comparing every black male politician on the scene to Obama is a bit lazy - just because I'm from a similar background… — Chuka Umunna 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
“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
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
Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
There's a lot of female singers and I don't want to dismiss them, but the male - and I have to be… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
“To be "bad" is good not simply because it subverts the language of the dominant white culture but also because it imposes… — Cornel West 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
If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I… — Ashton Sanders Copy Share Image
I think it's important for people to understand that dance, movement, choreography is about an experience and entertainment but it's also about… — Camille A. Brown Copy Share Image
The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“The absence of the father creates a hole in the center of their being, particularly for boys. Their lives become a routine… — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a… — Allen West Copy Share Image
We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I love telling the experience of a black male in America, but modern, not always having to go back to a period… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Human Rights Watch: “Nationwide, the rate of drug admissions to state prison for black men is thirteen times greater than the rate… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Asian men are frequently emasculated in the media, or presented as sexless props, for comedic relief. Oh, if only they could absorb… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark, Jr 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'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our… — Eddie Griffin 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
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
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
I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
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