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“Several researchers have found that the pressures that Black men and boys experience exact a toll on their (our)1 psychological and emotional well-being. How…

— Pedro A. Noguera

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were “keeping it real” when what they were really doing was…

— bell hooks

“As industrial jobs began disappearing from cities, many black men found themselves back in positions of economic helplessness, without the kinds of jobs that…

— Tom Burrell

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to…

— Cornel West

The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent…

— Sanaa Lathan

I carry a lot of feminine energy as well as masculine energy, and that's the hit that people are getting. That vulnerable thing is…

— Laurence Fishburne

One of the burdens of being a black male is carrying the heavy weight of other people’s suspicions.

— Jonathan Capehart

Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black…

— Ron Paul

“I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers who”

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

It is extremely interesting to me that black males, and other black folk, are viewed as self-pitying, by either other blacks who have failed…

— Michael Eric Dyson