Black Men Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Black Men
Black Men Quotes & Sayings
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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
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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
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
— Kool Moe Dee
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
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
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
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
Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.
— Kate Mosse
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
Life is too kind to men, whatever their color.
— Maryse Conde
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 dropyou are a Negro! ... Black is powerful. — Langston Hughes
Slowly, deliberately, the dog turned from the black wolf and walked toward the man. He was a dog, and dogs chose men.
— Jim Kjelgaard
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
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
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
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
— Bell Hooks
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
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.
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
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
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
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
