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Black Quotes by Langston Hughes
- I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
- Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black…
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are…
- Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
- I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
- Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that…
- A world I dream where black or white, whatever race you be, will share the bounties of the earth and every man is free
- Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.
- We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
- Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
- I’s been livin’ a long time in yesterday, Sandy chile, an’ I knows there ain’t no room in de world fo’ nothin’ mo’n love. I…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa