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Therefore, whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably,
People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.
Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.
Biologically speaking the Afro-Asiatic block is in the ascendancy - always remember that both Negro and White are minority groups - the largest race is the Mongoloid group.
Now, just a word about the poor Negroes ... They're here. They've got to be cared for ... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.
The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.
white or black. rich or poor. if you ever had your heart broken you have right to sing the blues
people, the kind of man who
I'm an African American.
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.
I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.
These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let
We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions.
I have a lot of African-American friends.
the ten little niggers, the
blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.
Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit by bit we crept along. As if that thing we believed to be approaching actually existed.
The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.
A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.
Though it is a painful fact that most Negroes are hopelessly docile, many of them are filled with fury, and the unctuous coating of flattery which surrounds and encases that fury is but a form of self-preservation.
So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves.
There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.
Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.
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.
The Negro is the child of two cultures - Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures.
Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.
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.
Throughout this book I will use the terms African-American, black, and Negro interchangeably. There is rarely a logic to it, so please try not to overthink it.
Let us prepare TODAY. For the TOMORROWS in the lives of the nations will be so eventful that Negroes everywhere will be called upon to play their part in the survival of the fittest human group.
No man will ever be president of the United States who spells Negro with two g's.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
If the Negro is not careful he will drink in all the poison of modern civilization and die from the effects of it.
When white people eat potato chips, they're called white people. When black people eat potato chips, they're called niggas.
Contrary to the belief of evolutionists, there is actually only one race - Adam's race. And Adam's race includes "black" people, "white" people - all human beings everywhere.
We've gone through the names - Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?
White [...] "Indian wannabees" or as those who mine indiginous traditions the way multinationals mine their land.
We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.
" ... light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
obliteration of the Negro home. A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems.
The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.
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.
Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.
I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.
I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor.
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.
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people.
What does America love more than one white male?
I'm racist against non-black people.
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country.
It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
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.
Our Blacks Are Better Than Their's
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
Do you have blacks, too?
This is my race, but these are not my people. I
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story. It is one repeated over and over again in history. When the wolves of hate are loosed on one people, then no one is safe.
Things that cross all racial, religious, and cultural boundaries - poor
I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
Colored students at the University of Minnesota partying with (white) female students, smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy.
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
Human beings are not black and white.
Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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.
The education of the Negroes, then, the most important thing in the uplift of the Negroes, is almost entirely in the hands of those who have enslaved them and now segregate them.
And, as I said before, there are exceptions to the white norm: people who are white on the outside, but not white inside. I'm not sure what term should be applied to them other than "human beings.
Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men!
Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.
Whiteness is filthy.
There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.
A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.
Among these widely differing families of men, the first that attracts attention, the superior in intelligence, in power, and in enjoyment, is the white, or European, the MAN pre-eminently so called, below him appear the Negro and the Indian.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
African-Americans are underrepresented.
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
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.
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
People with no upper-body strength, who read poetry. These are my people.
If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?
The Germans, a race eager for war.
wasn't ready to think of colored people in
White people ... have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this
which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never
the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.
Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.