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Negro Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
— Langston Hughes
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
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
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family.
— Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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
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
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
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 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
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 dropyou are a Negro! ... Black is powerful. — Langston Hughes
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
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
