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Negro Quotes by James Weldon Johnson
- Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will…
- Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the…
- But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of…
- 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…
- The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether…
- Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.
More Negro Quotes
- 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