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Negro Quotes by Malcolm X
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.…
- His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When…
- The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the…
- Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around…
- A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and,…
- I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the…
- The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
- The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
- It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro.…
- I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected
- When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer…
- Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall…
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- 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
- If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a… — Frederick Douglass
- We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes
- One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He… — H. L. Mencken
- It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution… — John W. Campbell
- In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and… — Norman Mailer