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The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow. — Henry Ossawa Tanner

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk.
If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race. — Bill Cosby

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton

The Negro comes in many colors. Dark. Black. Blacker. Blackest. Blacker than night. Black as hell. Black as tar. — James McBride

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. — E. Franklin Frazier

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. — Oscar Micheaux

I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro. — Henry Carter Stuart

All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy. — Abraham Lincoln

Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. — Cynthia McKinney

If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. — Toni Morrison

Only black people can use controversial racial terms such as Negro. — Matthew Quick

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. — Marcus Garvey

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us. — Annie Elizabeth Delany

We're ready for a real black President - someone like Jay-Z. Obama's fine, just not all black. He's our gateway Negro. — Christopher Titus

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

Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back? — Jackie Robinson

Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. — John Adams

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. — Archie Shepp

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals. — Ethel Waters

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. — Gordon Parks

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox

Films make me into some cheap turn ... You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top. — Paul Robeson

I was learning that just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine. — Dick Gregory

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. — Michael Eric Dyson

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. — Toni Cade Bambara