Black Man Quotes

216 Black Man quotes by 140 unique authors

As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you… — Harper Lee
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you. — RuPaul
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in… — Zora Neale Hurston
If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to… — Maya Angelou
Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black… — Malcolm X
Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a… — Jay-Z
America sometimes resembles, at least from the point of view of a black man, an exceedingly monotonous minstrel show; the same dances, same music, same… — James A. Baldwin
Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their… — Steven Biko
America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt. — Malcolm X
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never… — Malcolm X
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a… — Dave Eggers
You can’t hate the roots of the tree without ending up hating the tree. You can’t hate your origin without ending up hating yourself. You… — Malcolm X
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over… — John Green
The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of… — Edward B. Lewis
I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of… — Malcolm X
The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to… — Malcolm X
With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such… — Paul Robeson
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! — Malcolm X
I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with… — John H. Johnson
The idea that America elected a black man to be its president forty years after it declined to allow Martin Luther King Jr. to stand… — Charlie Pierce
Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom. — Malcolm X
All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man. — Malcolm X
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that we should be separate, all right, but in this separate state or separate existence, the black man should be… — Malcolm X
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the… — Malcolm X
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is… — Bill Dedman

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