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Negro Quotes by Langston Hughes
- 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…
- I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
- It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want…
- Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black…
- My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,
- Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!
- The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.
- 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…
- Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that…
- But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That…
- Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought…
- If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing…
- If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo…
- We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
- But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, the time ain't long. That…
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