Quotes About Black Masculinity

#1. If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

Jackson Katz

#2. Every part contained a memory of the other parts it was directly attached to.

Stanislaw Lem

#3. Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Donald Glover

#4. If you regard your last day not as a punishment but as a law of nature, the breast from which you have banished the dread of death no fear will dare to enter.

Seneca.

#5. True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

Charles M. Blow

#7. Emotionally shut-down black males are often represented as epitomizing desirable masculinity.

Bell Hooks

#8. Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

Michio Kaku

#9. She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored.
Born black in a land where might is white and white is adored.
Born female in a land where decisions are masculine and masculinity controls.

Maya Angelou

#10. By the end of the seventies the feared yet desired black male body had become as objectified as it was during slavery, only a seemingly positive twist had been added to the racist sexist objectification: the black male body had become the site for the personification of everyone's desire.

Bell Hooks

#11. . . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Peter R. Pouncey

#12. Done any exciting sums lately?"
"I don't just do sums," Miles told her. "There's much more to my life than that."
"Is there?" Alicia asked, trying to sound interested.
"Yes," said Miles. "Sometimes I draw graphs.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#13. A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

Graeme Simsion

#14. You're so careful with me, Bevin murmured, awed.
That's because you're so precious to me, Tim replied

Savannah J. Frierson

#15. I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.

Collier Schorr

#16. 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

#17. A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

John Tenniel

#18. Largely excluded from the white masculine political sphere, black male scholars established intellectual organizations where they could not only distance themselves from women but also perform a masculinity parallel to that established by white male scholars.

Deborah Gray White