Am sorry Quote by Paul Robeson
“I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of...”
![“[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.” quote by Countee Cullen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94e/countee-cullen-16922_demand_w-e-have-always-resented-the-natural-inc_2231562.jpg)
![“People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.” quote by Paul Laurence Dunbar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b6/paul-laurence-dunbar-18887_believe_people-are-taking-it-for-granted-that-th_1424628.jpg)
![“We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.” quote by Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/54d/paul-robeson-8458_hands_we-must-realize-that-our-future-lies-chi_221592.jpg)
