Negro Quotes

376 quotes by 164 authors

Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
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
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. — Toni Cade Bambara
In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the… — Abraham Lincoln
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses… — Ella Baker
No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.....it is simply… — Thomas Huxley
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking… — Malcolm X
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some… — Paul Robeson
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes
We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,… — James A. Baldwin
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy… — Martin Luther
Opens up a whole new view of Beckett. The strong mutual attraction between Beckett and Cunard may help explain the leftist political views he expressed… — Barney Rosset
The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that we… — Duke Ellington
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. — Nat King Cole
Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins… — Isaac Hayes

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