Negro Quotes

376 Negro quotes by 164 unique authors

Now, suppose a Negro does something really magnificent, and I glory, not in the benefit to mankind, but in the fact that the doer was… — Zora Neale Hurston
My own convictions as to negro slavery are strong. It has its evils and abuses...We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's… — Jefferson Davis
I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see… — Robert E. Lee
It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want… — Langston Hughes
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… — James Weldon Johnson
"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." — Harry Reid
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm… — Bill Cosby
To be Negro in America is to hope against hope. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as… — Harry Reid
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the… — Malcolm X
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to… — Susan Sontag
Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Would America have been America without her Negro people? — W. E. B. Du Bois
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked… — Ray Stannard Baker
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. — Alain LeRoy Locke
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black… — Langston Hughes
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, — Langston Hughes
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! — Langston Hughes
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. — Langston Hughes
There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own… — Frederick Douglass
Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. — Frederick Douglass
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people… — Muhammad Ali
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, — Strom Thurmond
I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor,… — Strom Thurmond

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