Adolescence Quote by Jay Saunders Redding

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

— Julian Bond

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind,

— Langston Hughes

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— Anonymous

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that…

— George C. Wolfe

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by the conditions…

— James Baldwin

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting…

— W. E. B. Du Bois