Negro Quotes & Sayings
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of
Negro life in America. —
Langston Hughes

But the
Negro's experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards by which the white world claims to live. —
James Baldwin

Some aweful things happened to a
Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred. —
Chris Crowe

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the
Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. —
Ray Stannard Baker

Jazz, Miss Lily, is the bastard child of music, born from the old
Negro work song by a whole lot of fine daddies who ain't about to claim it. —
Beatriz Williams

The
Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. —
Ellsworth Huntington

I can't serve just the
Negro cause. I've got to serve all the people of Massachusetts. —
Edward Brooke

What I ask for the
Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. —
Frederick Douglass

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the
negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the
negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. —
Bix Beiderbecke

To be
Negro in America is to hope against hope. —
Martin Luther King Jr.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as
Negro spirituals? —
Mahalia Jackson

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single
Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. —
Mary McLeod Bethune

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of
Negro workers. —
W.E.B. Du Bois

Washington shows the
Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst. —
James Weldon Johnson

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional
Negro music. —
Archie Shepp

Because I knew that racist
Negro Archetypes, like Bebe's Kids, don't die. They multiply. —
Paul Beatty

A
Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him. —
Charles Hamilton Houston

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a '
Negro' fraction ... —
Gwendolyn Brooks

By nonviolent resistance, the
Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. —
Martin Luther King Jr.

The day for the
Negro man being a coward is over. —
James Meredith

I proudly love being a
Negro woman
it's so involved and interesting. —
Anne Spencer

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of
Negro children each year. —
Jonathan Kozol

In a word, the
Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him. —
Booker T. Washington

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a
negro, but how he caught the darky spirit! —
Langston Hughes

At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the
Negro society is the deterioration of the
Negro family. —
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The whites come to applaud a
Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. —
Nat King Cole

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the
Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity. —
Major Taylor

Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a
Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. —
Harper Lee

I was bred as an outcast, part
Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. —
Willie Stargell

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of
Negro music. —
Alain LeRoy Locke

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

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

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

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

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

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

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a
Negro in America. —
Jay Saunders Redding
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. —
John Adams

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

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

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

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

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the
Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery. —
Carter G. Woodson

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary
Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. —
Ralph Ellison

The
negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths —
Che Guevara

Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the
negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. —
James A. Garfield
Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop
you are a
Negro! ... Black is powerful. —
Langston Hughes

Only those who hate the
Negro see hatred in the
Negro. —
Jose Marti

In the
Negro Leagues, I played every day. —
Buck Leonard

But the color of a
Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target —
Richard Wright

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-
Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. —
Milton Friedman

The
Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. —
John Oliver Killens

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

Would it be better if I'd married a
Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? —
Sammy Davis Jr.

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a
negro, and be hanged for it. —
Edward Augustus Freeman

July 24th, 1833. - The Beagle sailed from Maldonado, and on August the 3rd she arrived off the mouth of the Rio
Negro. —
Charles Darwin

If I could find a white man who had the
Negro sound and the
Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars. —
Sam Phillips

The Jewish people and the
Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror. —
Langston Hughes

As
Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. —
W.E.B. Du Bois

Perhaps the little
Negro girl was holding a concealed razor blade. Maybe she was one of the troublemakers out for a fresh white scalp. —
David Sedaris

If I allow the fact that I am a
Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated. —
Paul Williams

My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the
Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, —
Langston Hughes

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the
negro in the United States. —
Althea Gibson