Black Men Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Black Men

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Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man. — Lenny Henry

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

My handicap? Man, I am a one-eyed, black Jew! That's my handicap! — Sammy Davis Jr.

The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. — Daphne Du Maurier

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford. — Walter Mosley

Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black. — Johnny Cash

Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. — Hillary Clinton

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby. — W. Kamau Bell

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around. — Johnnetta B. Cole

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world — Marcus Garvey

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — Fannie Lou Hamer

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white. — Betty Friedan

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. — David Duke

I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. — Kool Moe Dee

Aldrik - the crown prince, the future Emperor, Fire Lord, ruler of the Black Legion, sorcerer - was only a man. And men could be broken. — Elise Kova

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way. — Muhammad Ali

I know I am judged unfairly by my physical characteristics and ostracized because of that so I say, "Yes, I'm a black man." — Chuck D

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes. — William Shakespeare

I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

He'd thought all weak men were sissies, and maybe they were, but Paul had shown him that not all sissies were weak. — Daniel Black

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up. — Muhammad Ali

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa. — James A. Baldwin

All men look nerdy in black socks and sandals. — Rita Rudner

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. — Bell Hooks

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man. — Bob Marley

Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote. — Warren G. Harding

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice. — Elmore Leonard

Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls. — Kate Mosse

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. — Tanya Huff

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up. — Robin Williams

The truth is, no man is white and no man is black. We are all freckled. — Clarence Darrow

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool. — Bonnie Raitt

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that. — James Earl Jones

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived. — Jet Black

I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one. — Tony Shalhoub

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind. — Common

Life is too kind to men, whatever their color. — Maryse Conde

That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else. — Holly Black

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

I am a tropical black man. — Shaquille O'Neal

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop
you are a Negro! ... Black is powerful. — Langston Hughes

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding. — Alice Walker

From the beginning, the imported black men and women resisted their enslavement. Ultimately their resistance was controlled, and — Anonymous

Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men. — Jim Kjelgaard

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850. — John Legend

No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! — Malcolm X

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has. — Hugo Black

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. — Jesse Jackson

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. — Malcolm X

See, the Black man gotta fly to get to something the white man can walk to. — Chris Rock

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien! — Barry Sonnenfeld

How in the hell could God take the black earth and make himself a white man out of it? — Louise Meriwether

How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world? — Maureen Duffy

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs. — Spike Lee

between 2010 and 2012 young black males were 21 times more likely to be fatally shot by police than white men in the same age range. — Anonymous

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me. — Lena Dunham

The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black. — Bruce Springsteen

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea. — Cormac McCarthy

Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars. — B.V. Lawson

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice. — Marion Barry

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad. — Robin Williams

Then the night lessened, the clouds ashened slightly, and the men became starkly black and brown against the gray of the snow. — Ron Hansen

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. — Bell Hooks

When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again? — Aeschylus

Occasionally, young men, too, were thus violated. They fought like cornered lions. It always took three or four crewmen to subdue one of our boys. — Daniel Black

And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud. — Ferdowsi

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general. — Snoop Dogg

There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men. — Neil Drumming

Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. — Robin Williams

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood. — Robert E. Howard

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man. — Emma Goldman

I man don't come red, I come Black — Peter Tosh

God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. — Shane Black

Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page.. — Jimmy Breslin

America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. — Audre Lorde

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door. — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

To be beautiful, woman enough to have a black sweater, black skirt and walk arm in arm with the man she loves. — Yves Saint-Laurent

If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself. — Malcolm X

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors. — Mindy Kaling

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The black man should seek to be, and he should be encouraged to be, the best possible black man and not the best possible imitation of a white man. — Warren G. Harding

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white. — Chris Rock

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the universe, It is every where. — Black Elk

If I were her? First thing I'd do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd. — Elizabeth Bevarly

If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them. — Tupac Shakur

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog") — Stephen Crane

Have you ever had your ass whooped on by a black man before? It hurts! — Quinton Jackson

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods

A woman needs a man, more than a man needs a woman. We can thank prostitutes for that. — Robert Black

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them. — Runoko Rashidi

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.' — Marilyn Monroe

When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'. — Steven Biko