Afros Quote by Nathan Huggins

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

“The term 'black' was given a rebirth by the black youth revolt. As reborn, it does not refer to the particular color of any…

— Chancellor Williams

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that…

— Steven Biko

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be…

— Nathan Huggins

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through…

— Langston Hughes

“Perhaps I should have been a Negro. I suspect I would have been a rather large and terrifying one, continually pressing my ample thigh…

— John Kennedy Toole

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist . . . to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I…

— Langston Hughes

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

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else…

— Mary Church Terrell