My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers…

“Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more colourful.. Imagine our Russian intellectuals, the kind, merry, perceptive old women…

— Vasily Grossman

Writers who open up horizons for other people are performing a function every bit as important as a consciously politicized writer.

— Wole Soyinka

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or…

— John Ridley

“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master…

— Jay Grewal

Happy Black History Month everyone. I challenge you blacks to change how other races view us.

— Anonymous

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I do consider myself part of black history.

— Mary J. Blige

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.

— Rza

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there…

— Daymond John

“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”

— Cristina García

Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate…

— Richard Allen

“Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.”

— Anonymous

“Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.”

— Junius Williams