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The Negro was invented in America. -- John Oliver Killens
I was born in a Negro town. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Talk about handicap! I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Negro slavery is an evil of colossal magnitude. -- John Adams
Would America have been America without her Negro people? -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization. -- Marcus Garvey
To be Negro in America is to hope against hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back? -- Jackie Robinson
I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected -- Malcolm X
The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. -- Ellsworth Huntington
Martin Luther King has made the Negro in America unnatural. -- Malcolm X
I have never seen any good resulting from educating the Negro. -- Henry Carter Stuart
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy -- A. Philip Randolph
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over. -- James Meredith
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro. -- Jose Marti
Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful. -- Frederick Douglass
American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future. -- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black. -- Henry Louis Gates
I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music. -- Sonny Rollins
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. -- Archie Shepp
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. -- William Christopher Handy
I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting. -- Anne Spencer
No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood -- Brigham Young
The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs. -- Kelly Miller
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
Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself. -- Malcolm X
[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking. -- Malcolm X
Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful! -- Langston Hughes
From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America. -- Jay Saunders Redding
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! -- Malcolm X
Martin Luther King has taken away from the Negro his Gov-given right to defend himself. -- Malcolm X
I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist. -- E. Franklin Frazier
The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. -- John Oliver Killens
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. -- Anthony Braxton
No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's. -- William H. Seward
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. -- Frederick Douglass
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. -- Archie Shepp
I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap. -- Miles Davis
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. -- Langston Hughes
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals? -- Mahalia Jackson
It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude. -- Frantz Fanon
The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images. -- Sonia Sanchez
By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. -- Gordon Parks
The depression brought everybody down a peg or two. And the Negro had but few pegs to fall. -- Langston Hughes
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless. -- Malcolm X
America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. -- Mitch McConnell
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. -- John Henry Cox
You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party. -- Edward Brooke
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life. -- Julian Bond
Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. -- Oscar Micheaux
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian. -- Willie Stargell
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. -- Antonin Dvorak
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
But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target -- Richard Wright
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house. -- Malcolm X
At the heart of the deterioration of the fabric of the Negro society is the deterioration of the Negro family. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. -- Marcus Garvey
My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind, -- Langston Hughes
Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro. -- Leander Perez
I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes. -- Malcolm X
They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro. -- Jesse Helms
Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. -- Harper Lee
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. -- Frantz Fanon
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
In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. -- Malcolm X
If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. -- Pearl Cleage
If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. -- Paul Robeson
A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. -- Dorothy Height
If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful. -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories. -- John Adams
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. -- James A. Baldwin
The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God. -- Malcolm X
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. -- Carter G. Woodson
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction ... -- Gwendolyn Brooks
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior. -- Malcolm X
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
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man. -- Frederick Douglass
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
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
Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. -- Archie Shepp
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
You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro. -- Julius Streicher
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it. -- Marcus Garvey
You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down. -- 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
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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
At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters. -- Marcus Garvey
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
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 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
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
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
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
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ask for the ballot for the Negro and not for the woman. -- Susan B. Anthony
I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them. -- Douglas MacArthur
Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes! -- Wendell Phillips
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement, -- Strom Thurmond
Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits. -- Carter G. Woodson
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

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