Racial Struggle Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.”

Zora Neale Hurston

Negroes, Nature, Individual, Racial Struggle, Personal Ambition

2. “The root of the black man’s hatred is rage, and he does not so much hate white men as simply wants them out of his way, and, more than that, out of his children’s way.”

James Baldwin

Racial Struggle, Hatred and Rage, Social Justice, Identity Conflict, Cultural Oppression, Generational Struggle

3. “The black man in our midst carried murder in his heart, he wanted vengeance. We carried murder too, we wanted peace.”

James Baldwin

Racial Struggle, Vengeance vs Peace, Emotional Conflict, Social Justice, Black Identity, Inner Battle

4. “The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.”

James Baldwin

Bigotry Victim, White Supremacy, Moral Weakness, Racial Struggle, Personal Reflection, False Superiority

5. “At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”

James Baldwin

Cosmic Joke, Racial Struggle, Identity Crisis, Bad Taste, Unbelievable Reality, Racial Humor

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