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Negro's 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

No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's. — William H. Seward

It was more wonderful than making love with a negro boxer on Mr Singer's billiard table. — Sebastian Faulks

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

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! — Malcolm X

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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

The negro's story may have started in this country with degradation, but triumph and prosperity would be his one day. — Colson Whitehead

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

Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro. — Leander Perez

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

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

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

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

It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up. — E. Haldeman-Julius

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

I talked and talked of everything I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro. — Rosa Parks

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

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

There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS. — Jacque Fresco

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

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

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Well, all he did was kill a Negro," I said. "I guess that's only a misdemeanor. — Raymond Chandler

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. — Sonia Sanchez

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

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

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

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