Black Men Quotes

105 Black Men quotes by 81 unique authors

The fact that more than half of the young black men in any large American city are currently under the control of the criminal justice… — Michelle Alexander
Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them. — Runoko Rashidi
Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white… — Angela Davis
It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form… — Aberjhani
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend
But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we… — Audre Lorde
The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole
The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White… — Ishmael Reed
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying. — Claudia Rankine
A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws. In this case,… — Matthew Yglesias
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight. — Afeni Shakur
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of… — Gabrielle
Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. — Jesse Jackson
The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of… — James A. Baldwin
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is. — Sister Souljah
Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children. — Patricia Hill Collins
So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle
Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who… — Tommy Davidson
You know and we have about 60 to 70 percent black men in prison today and it's because of the negativity they have in their… — Stedman Graham
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men… — Thomas B. Macaulay

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