Best Black Men Sayings
105 Black Men quotes by 81 unique authors
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Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and…
— Benjamin Hooks
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Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and…
— Marcus Garvey
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Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
— Marcus Garvey
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Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.
— Walter Hill
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If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land…
— Ethan Nadelmann
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There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and…
— Hilton Als
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The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard…
— Henry Louis Gates
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
— Larry Elder
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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the…
— Bell Hooks
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I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
— Bell Hooks
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now.…
— Spike Lee
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
— Audre Lorde
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In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than…
— Audre Lorde
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Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
— Marilyn Monroe
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The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30…
— Michael Moore
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I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should…
— Will Smith
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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had…
— Cicely Tyson
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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant…
— Cornel West
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear…
— Kanye West
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Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
— Tiger Woods
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black…
— Andrew Young
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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
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When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that…
— Frantz Fanon
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And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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