Black Boy Quotes
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Black Boy Quotes & Sayings
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When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.
— Charlotte Bronte
I wondered if there had been a more corroding and devastating attack upon the personalities of men than the idea of racial discrimination.
— Richard Wright
Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Well, that's the end of that, I reckon. You know what, Furious?" And he grinned sideways at West. "I'm getting to like you, boy.
— Joe Abercrombie
He looks like the good boy he's never been.
— Holly Black
For a boy who always felt imperilled, that pitch-black cave was a refuge, and he returned to it in his imagination again and again.
— Helen Macdonald
What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?
— Nikki Giovanni
I had a little Richard and that black piano, oh that sweet Georgia Peach, and the boy form Tupelo.
— Elton John
No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
— George Bernard Shaw
He flashed up in her vision like a flare, auburn hair and that constant furrow between his eyes: one blue, one black. Antari. Magic boy. Prince.
— Victoria Schwab
God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.
— Will Leamon
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
— John Legend
The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a toilet wall closing on the Last Erection.
— William S. Burroughs
I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on.
— Tupac Shakur
The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.
— Holly Black
If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
— Lars Ulrich
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.
— Tyler Perry
Whose little boy are you?
— James Baldwin
I get now that your boy parts like my girl parts....
— Julie Ann Walker
But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
— Toni Morrison
I am black with love/ neither boy nor nightingale/ perfectly whole as a flower/ I desire without impulse
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
— David Sheff
What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?
— Jonathan Lethem