Black Man Quotes

216 Black Man quotes by 140 unique authors

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's… — Kerry Washington
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference! — Cab Calloway
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. — Arsenio Hall
I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long… — Barack Obama
If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s promises of a… — Bryant Gumbel
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit. — Wesley Snipes
You couldn’t pay me a billion dollars to take marijuana. I don’t really like coke anymore. I’m scared of ecstasy. The one drug I'd like to try one day… — Courtney Love
In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you’re a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you’re… — Chris Rock
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil… — Arthur Mitchell
My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she… — Lisa Bonet
I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them.… — Mike Epps
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there… — Kevin Eubanks
New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house,… — Bill Maher
I want to just take a moment to thank the Teabaggers. Thank you so much for helping us pass health care, for resurrecting the Obama… — Bill Maher
I doubt anything will really come of this lawsuit. First of all, it's a lawsuit. It involves a subpoena. And try to find a Republican… — Bill Maher
The Republican Party is saying that the President of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this President around, the unions boss him… — Lawrence O'Donnell
As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put,… — Runoko Rashidi
When I was perceived as a black man I became a threat to public safety. When I was dressed as myself, it was my safety… — Laverne Cox
I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to… — Aliko Dangote
Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid… — Jon Stewart
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black… — Jackie Robinson
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… — Ishmael Reed
It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have… — Julian Barnes
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s. — Amy Winehouse
The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man. — Thom Yorke

Who Wrote These Black Man Quotes

140 authors contributed a total of 216 Black Man Quotes, led by these top contributors: