Negro Quotes
376 quotes by 172 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 is seldom accepted…
— Maya Angelou
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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
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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
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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
— James Meredith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
— John Henry Cox
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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
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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
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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
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The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.
— John Oliver Killens
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Negro Quotes
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