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• The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It… — Maya Angelou
• The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the… — Malcolm X
• The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious… — Malcolm X
• I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it… — Susan Sontag
• But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Malcolm X
• The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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