Beauty Quote by Alvin Ailey

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician.…

— Gil Scott-Heron

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

“The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart”

— Frederick Douglass

“Through all my years enslaved, I've listened to ancestral voices echoing through my weariness, giving me strength to withstand injustice, to believe in myself…

— Ashley Bryan

“There was something lacking in these ofay places of amusement or else there was something present that one didn’t find in the black-and-tan resorts…

— George S. Schuyler

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“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 Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

— William Christopher Handy

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them…

— Timothy B. Tyson