Culture Quote by James A. Baldwin

The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with…

— Elijah Muhammad

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

— Kelly Miller

Billions of dollars have been lost to the Negro race within the last fifty years through disloyalty on the part of successful Negroes, who…

— Marcus Garvey

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then…

— Spike Lee

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from…

— Kenneth Clark

People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know…

— James A. Baldwin