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Letter "N" » Negro
«I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn»
Author: Allen Ginsberg
| Keywords:
ancient, Angel, burning, connection, destroyed, dragging, fix, headed, heavenly, hipsters, hysterical, My Generation, naked, Negro, starving
«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.»
«One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| About:
African American
| Keywords:
an American, asunder, dogged, Negro, strivings, torn, unreconciled, warring
«Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.»
«It is neither unusual nor new for me to have Negro friends, nor is it unusual for me to have found my friends among all races and religions of people.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| About:
Tolerance
| Keywords:
Negro, unusual
«The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Indian, bribery, crushed, doomed, hack, hacking, hacks, Indian, Negro, seduce, starve, submission, The Mexican, white man
«Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
African American,
Minority
| Keywords:
melting pot, Negro
«Non violent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity with arraying himself in vindictive force.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Action,
Change
| Keywords:
Action The, arraying, divest, divested, Negro, non violent, passivity, replace, supplement, supplements, vindictive
«The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not ent»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
African American,
Race,
Respect
| Keywords:
amazement, belligerence, distaste, emerges, formidable, Negro, outcome, survivors
«I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
foreseeable, granting, Negro, passionately, racist, racists
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