Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and… — Paul Robeson
Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top. — Paul Robeson
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. — Marcus Garvey
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than… — Marcus Garvey
You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with… — Marcus Garvey
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates
Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could… — Henry Louis Gates
Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. — Dick Gregory
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. — Ellsworth Huntington
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be… — Helen Hunt Jackson
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? — Mahalia Jackson
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God… — Robert Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live… — Robert Kennedy
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. — Jonathan Kozol
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. — Malcolm X
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. — Malcolm X
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.… — Malcolm X
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey… — Walter Dean Myers
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not… — Ronald Reagan
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. — Archie Shepp

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