Family Quote by Roger Ross Williams

I felt like I was an outsider growing up in the black church, as a gay man, in a poor community.

— Roger Ross Williams

When you're on the yard, prisoner politics dictate that you only socialize with your own race. If you fraternize with other races, you can…

— James Fox

Why does the black community associate being well dressed with being gay? How stupid

— Anonymous

A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay.

— Benjamin Carson

There are a lot of gay transvestites who have been in jail for no reason at all.

— Marsha P. Johnson

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through…

— Marlon Riggs

“Going into any prison is deeply confusing if you know anything about the racial demographics of America. The extreme overrepresentation of people of color,…

— Bryan Stevenson

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the…

— Eddie Griffin

The fact that's why the prisons and stock in private prisons rose the very day after the election results [for Donald Trump] were announced.…

— Ava DuVernay

Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a…

— Karamo Brown

It's very important to see a black gay teen represented.

— Ncuti Gatwa

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning…

— Malcolm X