Sentence examples for to be negro from inspiring English sources

In this way, Dolezal's claim on black identity is of a different order than the hollow declaration of a Hollywood scion or anyone else who opted to be Negro for a season.

"Our bourgeois heritage seems to me glorious as any stigma," Arbus wrote gaily to Marvin Israel — a stigma, she added, that was "just perhaps more hilarious than to have been Negro or midget".

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".

While Lane disavowed any intention to be a "negro thief," neither, he said, would he be a "negro catcher".

Frankly, I do not ascribe to the stupid theory of white supremacy and to try to hide the fact that I am a Negro for economic or any other reasons, if I do I would be agreeing to be a Negro makes me inferior and that I have swallowed whole hog all of the propaganda dished out by our fascist-minded white citizens".

Central to this history is Negro league star pitcher Satchel Paige's tenure with the Bismarck town team in 1933.

He would have had to be a Negro writer, which was something he did not want to be.

"To be a Negro," James Baldwin has recently said, is to be "a fantasy in the mind of the republic".

What do you think of that?" Don thinks for a moment and then says: "I think I wouldn't want to be that negro".

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

Baldwin once wrote, "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time".