Black Men Quotes

105 quotes by 85 authors

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's… — Erykah Badu
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. — Muhammad Ali
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked… — Maya Angelou
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is… — Malcolm X
There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried. — Toni Morrison
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black… — Malcolm X
You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our… — Ralph Abernathy
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including… — Zoe Valdes
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men… — Julianne Malveaux
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white… — Barack Obama
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from… — Donald Glover
What really drives the battle against law enforcement and punishment is not a commitment to treatment, but the widely held view that, first, we are… — John P. Walters
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's… — Ella Baker
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the… — Malcolm X
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men. — C.L. Bryant
Politics is work. Hiphop is music. The idea that hiphop, because it makes the body feel good to move to it and it makes the… — John H. McWhorter
Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our… — Jeremy Clarkson
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live… — Henry Louis Gates

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