Blast Quote by Marcus Garvey

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 time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

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

“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when…

— James Baldwin

“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them to understand…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational…

— Malcolm X

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by…

— Medgar Evers

“The negro’s story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day.”

— Colson Whitehead

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“(The essence of the irony of the plight of the Negro in America, to me, is that he is doomed to live in isolation…

— Richard Wright

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving,…

— Che Guevara