Black Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.”

— Ralph Ramovha

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets,…

— Richard Wright

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go…

— Jackie Robinson

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

“Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out…

— Anonymous

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

— Marcus Garvey

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

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

— Toni Morrison

“When black folk say “Black Lives Matter,” they are in search of simple recognition. That they are decent human beings, that they aren’t likely…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials…

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Real men are almost nowhere to be found in the black community; fatherlessness is the norm, and godlessness has taken over black churches.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

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