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

— Anonymous

I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with…

— Eldridge Cleaver

For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that…

— Normani Kordei

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black…

— James A. Baldwin

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“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

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

— Jackie Robinson

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling…

— Malcolm X

From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the…

— Alvin Ailey

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

— Paul Robeson

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

— Malcolm X

“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present level of…

— James Baldwin

“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