Negro Quotes

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

— Malcolm X

Now, don't be a negro, be my nigga. Help me out.

— Kevin Hart

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

— James Meredith

...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude.

— John Adams

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I’m [having sex] for God. I’m not a negro tonight!”

— Bill O'Reilly

In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.

— Buck Leonard

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

— Miles Davis

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

— Jesse Helms

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

— Malcolm X

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

— Leon Day

“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.”

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

— Rosa Parks

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had…

— Nathan Huggins

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul…

— E. Franklin Frazier

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

— Oscar Micheaux

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”

— James Baldwin

“Cualquier dejo de verdad que hubiera comenzado a florecer en el corazón de la joven, pronto comenzó a marchitarse”

— Isha Judd

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.

— Anonymous

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about…

— Booker T. Washington

One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he…

— Michael Salu

“In the beginning—and neither can this be overstated—a Negro just cannot believe that white people are treating him as they do; he…

— James Baldwin

Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the…

— Malcolm X

I feel myself the inheritor of a great background of people. Just who, precisely, they were, I have never known. I might…

— James A. Michener

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to…

— James Baldwin

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function…

— Malcolm X

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

— Anonymous

“As I begin to recognise that the Negro is the symbol of sin, I catch myself hating the Negro. But then I…

— Frantz Fanon

The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave…

— Henry David Thoreau

“black peoples have no historic pasts. Never having evolved civilizations of their own, they are practically devoid of that accumulated mass of…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

At the bottom of the social heap is the black man in the big-city ghetto. He lives night and day with the…

— Malcolm X

“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that…

— James Baldwin

“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I…

— Fauna Hodel

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my…

— John Kennedy Toole