Black Quote by Langston Hughes

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

— Langston Hughes

The night is black, as black as night.

— Melissa Etheridge

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved…

— Jose Celso Barbosa

“Strange is the night where black stars rise, and strange moons circle through the skies, but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”

— Robert W. Chambers

By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have…

— Phil Patton

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

— Robert Burns

“The night was as black as the inside of a cat.”

— Terry Pratchett

Night's black Mantle covers all alike.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies

— Robert W. Chambers

“All night, the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed his heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Langston Hughes

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall.

— Langston Hughes

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to…

— Langston Hughes