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“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“considering how thorough-going was the capture of the minds of the Blacks, it is really not surprising that so many Negro scholars still faithfully…

— Chancellor Williams

No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that…

— Thomas Jefferson

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

“Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other…

— Maya Angelou

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom…

— Maya Angelou

This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature…

— Marcus Garvey

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

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