African american Quote by Mary Church Terrell

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

— Malcolm X

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by…

— John Brunner

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

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

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

— Julian Bond

I am not an African. I am an American.

— Albert Murray

I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African…

— Annie Elizabeth Delany

Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together…

— Mary Church Terrell

“Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not…

— Baratunde R. Thurston

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their…

— Frederick Douglass

“Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as “Negro.”

— Matthew Quick

“I am not 'African American' —I am black American.”

— John McWhorter