America Quote by Paul Robeson

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't…

— Alvin Ailey

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

— Sonny Rollins

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black…

— James A. Baldwin

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

“After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

— Jackie Robinson

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling…

— Malcolm X

From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the…

— Alvin Ailey

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self…

— Anonymous

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

— Malcolm X

It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them…

— Anonymous

“I cannot accept the proposition that the four-hundred-year travail of the American Negro should result merely in his attainment of the present level of…

— James Baldwin

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and…

— R.J. Rushdoony