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"We can go on stage; we can be just as funny as white Americans wish us to be; we can play all the sordid parts that America likes to assign to Negroes; but for anything else, there is still a small place for us.

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"We can go on stage; we can be just as funny as white Americans wish us to be; we can play all the sordid parts that America likes to assign to Negroes; but for anything else, there is still a small place for us.

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"I do not doubt that the ultimate art coming from black folk is going to be just as beautiful, and beautiful largely in the same ways, as the art that comes from white folk, or yellow, or red; but the point today is that until the art of the black folk compells [sic] recognition they will not be rated as human."

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BUT I AM NOT tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not be long to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all but about it. Even in the helter?skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seer that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more of less. No, I do not weep at the world??I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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On one side of the square is the office of a colored lawyer and on all the other sides are men who do not like colored lawyers. A white woman goes into the black man's office and points to the white-filled square and says, "I want five hundred dollars now and if I do not get it I am going to scream."

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This hate will be one of the most powerful forces in the Negro revolution. In the South an iron system holds the Negroes down. But Southern whites know quite well what fires smoulder behind the deference and the humility.

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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

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"Of what is the colored artist capable? We have had on the part of both colored and white people singular unanimity of judgment in the past. Colored people have said: "This work must be inferior because it comes from colored people." White people have said: "It is inferior because it is done by colored people." But today there is coming to both the realization that the work of the black man is not always inferior." -W.E.B Du bois
Shaquela Brown

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the world is full of it; and yet today the mass of human beings are choked away from it, and their lives distorted and made ugly.

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But as you go through the valleys and over the foothills, so long as you are climbing, the direction--north, south, east or west--is of less importance.
Billy Steadman

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“But race is the child of racism, not the father.”

-Kyntara Blair

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Such is Beauty. Its variety is infinite, its possibility is endless.
Réi Haywood

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"It represents the generations' experience of injustice, of humiliation, of suppressed resentment and bitterness. But if negros hate whites, they also fear them, their knowledge, their power, their ruthlessness -- also the accumulated experience of the generations.

~Rebecca Washington

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But I will say that there are today a surprising number if white peiolw who are getting great satisfaction out of these younger Negro writers because they think it is going to stop agitation of the Negro question.

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"And it is right here that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People comes upon the field, comes with its great call to a new battle, a new fight and new things to fight before the old things are wholly won" - Lauren H.

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Free he is but his freedom is ever bounded by Truth and Justice;
Jaynese jones

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“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
-Patricia Rutto

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If you tonight suddenly should become full-fledged Americans; if your color faded, or the color line here in Chicago was miraculously forgotten; suppose, too, you became at the same time rich and powerful; -- what is it that you would want? What would you immediately seek? Would you buy the most powerful of motor cars and outrace Cook County?

-Otis Thompson Jr.

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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty and for Beauty to set the world right. That somehow, somewhere eternal and perfect Beauty sits above Truth and Right I can conceive, but here and now and in the world in which I work they are for me unseparated and inseparable.  -Eboni

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"You and I have been breasting hills; we have been climbing upward; there has been progress and we can see it day by day looking back along blood-filled paths"
-Avery Allen

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"Thus it is the bounden duty of black America to begin this great work of the creation of Beauty, of the preservation of Beauty, of the realization of Beauty, and we must use in this work all methods that men have used before."

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"Thus it is the bounden duty of black America to begin this great work of the creation of Beauty, of the preservation of Beauty, of the realization of Beauty, and we must use in this work all methods that men have used before."

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-Tierra Bratton

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"Quite often the hate is hidden, sometimes it is buried deep out of sight, sometimes it is twisted into its opposite, a passionate religiosity."

Taty'ana Green

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“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made an American out of a potential slave said ‘On the line!’ The Reconstruction said ‘Get Set!’; and the generation before said ‘Go!’ I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”

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I do not always feel colored. Even now I often achieve the unconscious Zora of Eatonville before the Hegira. I feel most colored when  am thrown against a sharp white background.

Chrissy Sanders