Flesh and blood Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

— Harry Reid

The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like…

— Neil Gaiman

“We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs into his…

— Steven Brust

People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you're writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in…

— Jamaica Kincaid

For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old…

— Nathan Huggins

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

“And my father, who never once in his life would have used the word 'nigger,' would smile and give an almost imperceptible laugh --…

— Anne Lamott

One of my earliest inspirations was the 'Allan-a-Dale' character played by Elton Hayes in the 1954 movie 'The Story Of Robin Hood And His…

— Denny Laine

Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as…

— Kerry James Marshall

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