Negro Quotes

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

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. - Paul Robeson

You look at countries like Italy and Spain, which both have low (Internet user) numbers, but Italy could actually be more wired than France. - Nicholas Negroponte

You always begin by thinking that it's going to go well and you're positive, but you don't know where you're going to end up. You never know if you're going to have much success or not. You never imagine. - Pilar Montenegro

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

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. - Paul Robeson

Yes, I can see that having yet another small state complicates decisions in large groups like the European Union. But I am also certain that the people of Montenegro have a right to decide their future and we will be better off independent. - Milo Djukanovic

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers? - Sammy Davis, Jr.

Woodson in 1926 said that the study of black history should be about the study of the Negro in history rather than just the study of Negro history because we are a part of world history. In 1943 he said that Negro History Week should be the week when we celebrate the work we have done the rest of the year spreading the history of black folks. Now today it is almost the exact opposite. - Greg Carr