Hats Quote by L. Ron Hubbard

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

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

— Julian Bond

“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

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever…

— Maya Angelou

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

— Ethel Waters

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

— Langston Hughes

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets,…

— Richard Wright

“Show me a population that is deeply religious, and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, contumely and the…

— Hubert H. Harrison

“You speak as if God was white and Southern! As if we somehow owned his image. You speak like a fool. The Negro is…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world…

— Wolfman Jack

“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm…

— Andrea Laurence

I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something…

— Paul Robeson