Negro Quotes

376 quotes by 172 authors

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. — James A. Baldwin
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without… — Mary McLeod Bethune
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose… — W. E. B. Du Bois
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is… — George Washington Carver
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
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the… — Susan B. Anthony
My music is not for everyone. It's only for the stong-willed, the [street] soldiers music. It's not like party music- I mean, you could gig… — Tupac Shakur
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over. — James Meredith
The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his… — Elijah Muhammad
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for… — James A. Baldwin
Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by… — Jose Celso Barbosa
What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what… — Mary McLeod Bethune
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. — Frederick Douglass
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Langston Hughes
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. — John Oliver Killens
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… — H. L. Mencken
It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a fine… — John W. Campbell
In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was… — Norman Mailer

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