Black Quote by Langston Hughes

Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and … most…

— Madison Grant

the less powerful group usually knows the powerful one much better than vice versa - blacks have had to understand whites in order to…

— Gloria Steinem

There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're…

— Keegan-Michael Key

The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color, and amalgamate with the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

— Huey Newton

Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I…

— Whitney M. Young

America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or…

— Edward Brooke

Black is a colour of power and strength.

— Hayden Fry

You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

I have spent my whole life earnestly believing the fundamental American dictum that a single 'drop of black blood' makes a person 'black' primarily…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner