American Negro Quotes

17 quotes by 9 authors

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted… — Maya Angelou
The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of… — Malcolm X
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the… — Malcolm X
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of… — James Weldon Johnson
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That… — Langston Hughes
American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man… — James A. Baldwin
If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro.… — Malcolm X
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as… — James A. Baldwin
When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer… — Malcolm X
But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, the time ain't long. That… — Langston Hughes
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted… — Maya Angelou

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