Negro Quotes

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

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life. — John F. Kennedy

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

...internalized the Negro theorem of needing to be twice as good to get half as far. — Margot Lee Shetterly

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. — Ida B. Wells

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud. — Langston Hughes

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. — Malcolm X

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 was born in a Negro town. — Zora Neale Hurston

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. — Pearl Cleage

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. — Henry Louis Gates

If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own. — Carter G. Woodson

The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. — Langston Hughes

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

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy — A. Philip Randolph

In death the negro became a human being. Only then was he the white man's equal. On — Colson Whitehead

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa. — James A. Baldwin

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

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak

But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. — Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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