Quotes About Negro

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

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

September 1966. "I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the economic plight of the Negro poor has worsened over the last few years.

I worked in the summertime with the Bulls, I don't know, two-three years in a row, Vinny Del Negro, he told me I didn't play defense.

Lee Rainwater and William Yancey have suggested, "The year 1965 may be known in history as the time when the civil rights movement discovered, in the sense of becoming explicitly aware, that abolishing legal racism would not produce Negro equality.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear.

Washington shows the Negro not only at his best, but also at his worst.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.

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

I have since learned that this ability to laugh heartily is, in part, the salvation of the American Negro; it does much to keep him from going the way of the Indian.

I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.

Vi entonces su nuca que no había visto nunca, con el pelo algo levantado y algo enredado y algo sudado, y calor no hacía, una nuca decimonónica por la que corrían estrías o hilos de cabellos negro y pegado, como sangre a medio secar, o barro, como la nuca de alguien que resbaló en la ducha, y aún tuvo tiempo de cerrar el grifo.

I later heard somewhere, or read, that Malcolm X telephoned an apology to the reporter. But this was the kind of evidence which caused many close observers of the Malcolm X phenomenon to declare in absolute seriousness that he was the only Negro in America who could either start a race riot-or stop one. When I once quoted this to him, tacitly inviting his comment, he told me tartly, "I don't know if I could start one. I don't know if I'd want to stop one.

Now Nimrod, as the son of Cush, was black, in other words, was a negro. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin?" is in the original, "Can the Cushite" do so? Keeping this, then, in mind, it will be seen that in that figure disentombed from Nineveh, we have both the prototype of the Anglo-Saxon Zer-Nebo-Gus, "the seed of the prophet Cush," and the real original of the black Adversary of mankind, with horns and hoofs.

Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison.

The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here? or What Next?" In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else.

The potent cry of white supremacy provided the final ideological glue in the Democratic coalition. Sometimes the appeal to race was oblique. The Democratic slogan, "The Union as It Is, the Constitution as It Was," had as its unstated corollary, blacks as they were—that is, as slaves. Often, it was remarkably direct. "Slavery is dead," the Cincinnati Enquirer announced at the end of the war, "the negro is not, there is the misfortune.