Country Quote by Malcolm X

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition,…

— Malcolm X

“I am very much concerned that American Negroes achieve their freedom here in the United States. But I am also concerned for their dignity,…

— James Baldwin

I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's…

— Malcolm X

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

— Toni Morrison

People tend to sit where there are places to sit

— William H. Whyte

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

— Huey Long

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

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as…

— Malcolm X

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and…

— Amanda Smith

Back in the day, prior to rock and roll, music halls, concert venues were segregated if they allowed black people in at all. You…

— Daryl Davis

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where…

— Zora Neale Hurston