America Quote by John Oliver Killens

Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural.

— Malcolm X

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

— Langston Hughes

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

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

— Kerry James Marshall

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

— Frantz Fanon

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

— Malcolm X

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

— Malcolm X

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

— W. E. B. Du Bois