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The Negro is America's metaphor.

Richard Wright
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I call it a barnstorming tour. Taking it to communities all over the country, introducing many folks to Negro Leagues baseball for the first time.

Bob Kendrick
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn.

Allen Ginsberg
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We had some fun with the Bristol name, but there were the barnstorming teams that created the first exposure the major league players had to the Negro League players.

Paul Melvin
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What a great man he was. Maybe he wasn't the best ball player [in the Negro leagues], but he was the best person to be the first. He was a true gentleman.

Robert Scott
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Sammy Davis, Jr.
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It was much worse than the so-called negro. It's about a triple form of discrimination -race, language and culture.

Dan Klores
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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Marcus Garvey
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Among those were Negro League teams.

Paul Melvin
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If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

Countee Cullen
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In the beginning, all that was asked that they change the word from the N-word to Negro, and they said no.

Margie Oakley
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

Robert F. Kennedy
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If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Paul Williams
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This will provide a glimpse of what life was like in the Negro Leagues.

Bob Kendrick
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This one is sort of celebrating the heritage of Negro League baseball.

Paul Melvin
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Most people don't know these guys came out of the Negro Leagues, and those are some of the household names in Major League Baseball. That's just a sampling of the kind of talent that was present in the Negro Leagues.

Bob Kendrick
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