(23 quotes found)
“It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.”
Hank Aaron
“I don't know if anybody would be willing to go out on a limb and say other Negro leagues guys are going to be considered.”
Fay Vincent
“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.”
Countee Cullen
“When I was born, I was colored. I soon became a Negro. Not long after that I was black. Most recently I was African-American. It seems we're on a roll here. But I am still first and foremost in search of freedom.”
Harry Belafonte
“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”
Maya Angelou
“For every point I'm given, I'll have earned two, because I'm a Negro.”
Jack Johnson
“Among those were Negro League teams.”
Paul Melvin
“And the third picture is a picture of a Negro Leagues game in Kansas City. The unique thing about the picture is that while there are black players on the field, there are blacks and whites together in the stands.”
Jim Ferguson
“He told me he was hopeful of getting Negro players into the game. He was very sure about it. He was a very religious man. That was 15 years before Jackie Robinson.”
Howdy Groskloss
“the so-called ‘Negro dialect’ is simply a variation on the ordinary Southern accent.”
Thomas Sowell
