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“Negro Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude and I am utterly averse to the admission of Slavery into the Missouri Territories.”
― John Adams, Familiar Letters of John Adams & His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”
― James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

“Negro eli neekeri on ihan eri asia kuin nigger eli nekru.”
― Tony Halme, Tuomiopäivä

“I remember the first time I ever saw you, the day you came. L.J. and I were so excited about this new person that came into the family like a storm blowing over the Bradshaw’s. We’d never seen a Negro before.”
― A.G. Graham, Yavapai County Line: West of the Divide Book 1

“Господь улыбается, как негритенок. («Генералы песчаных карьеров»)”
― Jorge Amado, Capitães da areia

“He so often felt as though he hailed from a different species, not quite human. He’d always been different, had never fit. Negroes looked at him askance, questioning his credentials as a Negro man. Whites did, too. For both groups, he wasn’t Negro enough.”
― Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon