I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Negro on saxophone blew out a language older than English and the glasses on the tables trembled” — Melinda Haynes Copy Share Image
I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far.” — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. — Jay Saunders Redding Copy Share Image
I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. — Leon Day Copy Share Image
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in… — Edward Brooke Copy Share Image
“A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we… — Stacy-Deanne Copy Share Image
The Negro neighborhood, which is inferior, is begging for a chance to - integrate itself into that which is - is superior,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I remember the first time I ever saw you, the day you came. L.J. and I were so excited about this new… — A.G. Graham Copy Share Image
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
My dream was I was going to be an actor. Racism occurred to me. It dawned on me that I would not… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later,… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I think I've read all of W.E.B. Du Bois, which is a lot. He started off with comprehensive field work in Philadelphia,… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Come close, be my buddy, then after a while call me nigga - it won't affect our friendship one bit. But out… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro… — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Copy Share Image
“I named you Fauna because I loved Robinson Jeffers’ poem about Flora and Fauna. I asked that they keep that name. I… — Fauna Hodel Copy Share Image
“I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born… — W.E.B. DuBois Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
