Quotes Tagged With :negro

One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster,....

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too....

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of....

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost....

O black and unknown bards of long ago How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How in your darkness....

Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places....

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible....

The fear had precedent. Toward the end of the Civil War, having witnessed the effectiveness of the Union's....

The image of God cut in ebony.