Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. — Willie Stargell
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing… — Ida B. Wells
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been… — Ida B. Wells
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough… — Carter G. Woodson
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies. — Carter G. Woodson
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of… — Carter G. Woodson
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with… — Carter G. Woodson
If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop… — Carter G. Woodson
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked… — Carter G. Woodson
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. — Carter G. Woodson
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. — Michael Eric Dyson
It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,… — Carter G. Woodson
The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that… — Carter G. Woodson
If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard… — Carter G. Woodson
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected — Malcolm X
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
Perhaps the little Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp. — David Sedaris
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he… — Maya Angelou
I always wanted to eat with a Negro,” Grandma said. Yeah, well I always wanted to eat with a boney- assed old white woman,” Lula… — Janet Evanovich
I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I… — Kathryn Stockett
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… — James A. Baldwin

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