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Negro Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
- 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…
- 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,…
- All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not…
- An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man…
- Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,…
- It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as…
- White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
- It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in…
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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
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy… — Mary McLeod Bethune
- One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one… — 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… — 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… — Maya Angelou
- I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a… — 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,… — 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… — Elijah Muhammad
- Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price… — 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… — Unknown Author
- What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants opportunity to… — Mary McLeod Bethune