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• I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on. — Tupac Shakur
• Bodybuilding has been the tool that single-handedly taught a little black boy from the projects to use his mind to achieve success.… — Kai Greene
• 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
• 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
• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school. — Tavis Smiley
• We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is… — Karrine Steffans
• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe
• As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change. — John Legend
• Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are. — Toni Morrison
• I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry
• 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.
• What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary? — Jonathan Lethem

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