Quotes About Black

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

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

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.

There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

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

And just as you can find hip-hop lyrics beating up on all these groups, including young Black men themselves, the primary producers of the music, you can also find lyrics celebrating them.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

In the rural South, 'Bubba' is like how people say 'dude' in California. It's a name for a regular Southern man. I know a Chinese Bubba, a black Bubba.

Jesus loves a free black man.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

Nearly every black man faces an unacceptable level of violence in this society. I'm not different. Money can shield you; it can protect you. But it doesn't make you white.

As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.