Sentence examples for being a negro from inspiring English sources
He quotes the poet Amiri Baraka: "Merely by being a Negro in America, one was a nonconformist".
As Toynton puts it, Broyard felt that he had to make a choice between being an aesthete and being a Negro.
After 22 years of being a Negro, Ashe knows that it would be naive to expect people to see him as a human being first, a colored man second.
Mr. Weaver, in a comment to The New York Times four decades ago that reverberates somewhat differently today, said: "I don't delude myself into thinking that I've ceased being a Negro because I've received recognition in the mainstream.
Or as Ralph Ellison explained — and I hope my children will read him carefully because they will have to make up their own minds: "Being a Negro American involves a willed (who wills to be a Negro? I do!) affirmation of self as against all outside pressures".
But while that ever-present wound was a pressure point in a number of more traditionally crafted, narrative dramas and comedies by such brilliant black playwrights as Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Childress, Kennedy struck a nerve by failing to offer an explanation for it: the madness of being a Negro in America was . . .
And later, "A Negro is a Negro is a Negro" and a Jew is a, well, you know.
One went: "Once there was a Negro.
But a Negro don't know he's a Negro.
Writer calls the boy Michael Purvis, and he's a Negro.
