“There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
“I once two beautiful children playing together. One was a fair white child; the other was her slave, and also her sister.… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The greatest act of revolution for any black woman is to put pen to paper with purpose.” — Stalina Goodwin Copy Share Image
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards.… — Ralph Abernathy Copy Share Image
“If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
Use Black History month as an opportunity to tell your family history as far back as you can go. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
'Smart Funny and Black' is basically a live black pop culture game show that I created. We have a live band. We… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“You have probably seen the order from Washington which cuts down the pay for colored troops from $13 to $10. Of course… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio 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
“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
“I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
