I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience. — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
Happy Black History Month! Despite setbacks and stereotypes, I'm proud of my roots and history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This Black History Month, celebrate and remember diverse leaders of the past, present and future! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.” — Brent Staples Copy Share Image
… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“It’s infuriating that yesterday, my father had to pull all my younger cousins into a room and tell them to be more… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
“Come close, be my buddy, then after a while call me nigga - it won't affect our friendship one bit. But out… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our… — Big E Copy Share Image
I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
I was often filled with excitement to be given a platform to showcase Black history to others. I never questioned why Black… — Judi Love Copy Share Image
I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that I didn't have the resources to… — Saweetie Copy Share Image
“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
“In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep… — Satchel Paige Copy Share Image
“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“While slaveowners worked vigorously to allow slaves only so much biblical teaching as to make them good, docile, submissive slaves, even the… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“We invoke the words of Jefferson and Lincoln because they say something about our legacy and our traditions. We do this because… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
