negro

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1. negro - Noun

2. negro - Adjective

3. negro - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too. Paul Robeson

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together. Marcus Garvey

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. W. C. Handy

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto. Carter Woodson

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going. African American Proverb

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going. American Proverb

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