Appreciate Quote by William Christopher Handy

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being…

— Ishmael Reed

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

— Booker T. Washington

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, the ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with…

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

— Frederick Douglass

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G. Woodson

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

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a…

— Wallace Thurman

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro…

— James Baldwin

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music,…

— Samuel George Morton

I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician.…

— Gil Scott-Heron