Negro Quotes - page 16

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole. (Archie Shepp)
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response. View quote
Archie Shepp
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro. View quote
Benjamin E. Mays
The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back. View quote
Charles Hamilton Houston
America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles. View quote
Djimon Hounsou
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind. View quote
Ella Baker
You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party. View quote
Edward Brooke
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the poor class of white people, they're getting tired of it. View quote
Howlin' Wolf
However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children. View quote
John Sergeant Wise
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achieved, despite the presence of some enlightened whites, white society as a whole enjoyed being racists in the secret core of their being and would never, ever give that up. (Margo Jefferson)
In the Negro Leagues, I played every day. View quote
Buck Leonard
We in the Negro leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing. We played with a round ball, and we played with a round bat. And we wore baseball uniforms, and we thought that we were making a contribution to baseball. We loved the game, and we liked to play it. View quote
Buck Leonard
I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. View quote
Leon Day
I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man. View quote
Michael Eric Dyson
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. View quote
Paul Williams
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. View quote
Roger B. Taney
In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry. View quote
Ray Dandridge
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again. View quote
Ray Stannard Baker
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car. View quote
Ray Stannard Baker
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not serve Negroes, even the best of them. (Ray Stannard Baker)
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture its colloquialisms its humor its music. View quote
Sonny Rollins
How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity. View quote
Sonny Rollins
I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact. View quote
Strom Thurmond
If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars. View quote
Sam Phillips