You can't talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can't talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of the slums. You're really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.
There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.
Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution.
A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight back?
The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.
I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle.
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.
Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.