Black Men Quotes
105 Black Men quotes by 81 unique authors
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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
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Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.
— Runoko Rashidi
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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
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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
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White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
— Bell Hooks
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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
— John Legend
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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
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The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
— Johnnetta B. Cole
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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
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Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.
— Claudia Rankine
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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
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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
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The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
— Afeni Shakur
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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
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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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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
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I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.
— Sister Souljah
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Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.
— Patricia Hill Collins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Black Men Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 105 Black Men Quotes, led by these top contributors: