Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have. — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race. — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“The Southern Negro will not tell the white man the truth. He long ago learned that if he speaks a truth unpleasing… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is… — Jose Celso Barbosa Copy Share Image
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please… — Baratunde R. Thurston Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being… — Nathan Huggins Copy Share Image
The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this is… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“I grew silent and reserved as the nature of the world in which I lived became plain and undeniable; the bleakness of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Show me a population that is deeply religious, and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, contumely… — Hubert H. Harrison Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It may be quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant of the facts,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image