Action Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

— Ethel Waters

The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials…

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

— Indira Gandhi

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be…

— E. Franklin Frazier

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass