Attitude Quote by DJ Premier

When you see a black guy on TV, he's always a thug or always portrayed as someone that's in trouble. It spreads the message…

— Thomas Jones

It's funny that black men, at first, were worried about a show called 'Girlfriends' because they thought that black men were gonna get bashed.…

— Mara Brock Akil

We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make…

— Malcolm X

Black men constantly receive the message that they can't make it in life through using legitimate means, and the only way they gain society's…

— Jemele Hill

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by…

— Henry Giroux

You'd be amazed how many Black men from the 'hood to Harvard have heard 'Black men are trash' their whole lives, from within the…

— Jason Johnson

There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the…

— Thomas Jones

Something that people talk about a lot in the Black community is how Black women hold it up, basically, and Black women don't get…

— Nia DaCosta

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.

— Jess Row

I think the stereotypes many black men are put under, even in the entertainment world, can sometimes have a dark or negative undertone.

— MNEK