Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. We will find out whether or not we get six more weeks of black history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of… — Whitney M. Young Copy Share Image
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
“I heard you in that courtroom today. I've even seen you here a couple times before. I know's you a stonecatcher, too.” — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents… — 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
I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald's commercials, and they'd blacken up the commercials… — Jermaine Fowler Copy Share Image
“[Clyde Ross] was stationed in California. He found that he could go into stores without being bothered. He could walk the streets… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Black excellence is a thing. People - from Beyonce Knowles to Venus and Serena Williams to folks you haven't heard of -… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed 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
Since I began presenting programmes about black history my life has become a constant impromptu focus group. I am stopped in the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
All kids of all races need to understand, not just about black history but their own history. It's something that will help… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
“But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same… — Karyn Parsons Copy Share Image
I mean it's always good to document your history. 'Cos for some strange reason black history has a tendency of getting lost.… — Big Daddy Kane 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
When you decide that Black history is not a part of American history or when you decide that any book that talks… — Jasmine Crockett 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
“When the slaves finished, they had stripped the fields of their color. It was a magnificent operation, from seed to bale, but… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a… — Earl G. Graves, Sr Copy Share Image
“Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“That was when I realized we weren’t born to be slaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be… — Jay Grewal Copy Share Image
“Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“While recruiting, Lieutenant Grace was often insulted by such remarks as, "There goes the captain of the Negro Company! He thinks the… — Luis Fenollosa Emilio Copy Share Image
“We learned how to envision a different neighborhood, fought for the resources to make it happen, and in March 1968, through the… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget “what the old folks say.” Most of us probably now realize that our… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
“Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren… — Deborah L. Parker Copy Share Image
History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
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