American society Quote by Cornel West

America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos -…

— Malcolm X

It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or…

— Pearl Cleage

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers…

— Huey Newton

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

— Henry Giroux

“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate terror in…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them…

— Anonymous

There is no one way to be Black in America, but there is one way we live while Black in America. No matter our…

— Jonathan Capehart

There is nothing more dangerous on planet Earth than a black wife.

— Keegan-Michael Key

There's an anecdote that's really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You…

— Jonathan Majors

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you.…

— Puff Daddy

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

— Margaret Walker