Negro Quotes
376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors
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Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!
— Wendell Phillips
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I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with…
— Fredi Washington
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You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their…
— Fredi Washington
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There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMSâ€.
— Jacque Fresco
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Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any…
— Cynthia McKinney
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The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country…
— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
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Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during…
— Unknown Author
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The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably…
— Varg Vikernes
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Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and…
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
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I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and…
— Henry Ossawa Tanner
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You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.
— William Christopher Handy
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I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
— William Christopher Handy
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Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they…
— James Weldon Johnson
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However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.
— John Sergeant Wise
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I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil…
— Emanuel Celler
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Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and…
— Stanley Crouch
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The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Compared to my talents, Whoopi Goldberg is like one of those fake plastic Buddhas you get at dollar stores. I mean really, I fail to…
— Zach Braff
Who Wrote These Negro Quotes
164 authors contributed a total of 376 Negro Quotes, led by these top contributors: