I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro…

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by…

— John Brunner

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

— Brian Lamb

It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an…

— Raila Odinga

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party.…

— Noam Chomsky

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black…

— James A. Baldwin

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling…

— Malcolm X

From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the…

— Alvin Ailey

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self…

— Anonymous

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

— Paul Robeson

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

— Malcolm X

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them…

— Anonymous

“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present level of…

— James Baldwin

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it…

— W. E. B. Du Bois