Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country. — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to. — Philip Freelon Copy Share Image
Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I'm one of those persons who think that watching black people suffer is not an idea of entertainment. I know a lot… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ...… — Mary McLeod Bethune Copy Share Image
In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Awad Ibrahim, Sudanese professor of education at the University of Ottawa, described the process [of becoming Black in America] in these terms:… — H. Samy Alim Copy Share Image
“They wrote, yes. But thousands could, if someone would bother to teach them. And everything they wrote was written for whites. Petitions.… — Sara Collins Copy Share Image
Every February, we celebrate the heritage and contributions of African Americans in North Carolina and around the country. North Carolina holds an… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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