“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost, almost all of the time.”— James Baldwin
“Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I had not found it yet.”— Peter Abrahams
“To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”— Kenneth B. Clark
“The life of a people is not determined by philosophical systems, but by the values of its blood.”— Alfred Rosenberg
“I am an invisible man... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”— Ralph Ellison
“I have no patience with the man who is afraid of being called a 'nigger's friend'.”— Thaddeus Stevens
“But the black choreographers are not given the same platforms that are given to their white counterparts.”— Alvin Ailey
“We are a conquering race, and we must obey our blood and occupy new markets, and, if necessary, new lands.”— Albert J. Beveridge
“A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.”— Dorothy Height
“For the Negro intellectual, the choice is not between a 'black' and a 'white' world.”— E. Franklin Frazier
“Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.”— Dick Gregory