America Quote by August Wilson

Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.

— Uzodinma Iweala

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…

— James Baldwin

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

— Mary Landrieu

“Yes, my friends, your hunger for history is still pretty segregated. Your knowledge of America often ends at the color line. You end up…

— Michael Eric Dyson

One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken…

— Xavier Woods

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in…

— Ishmael Reed

Let the record show, Black history is American history, and I look forward to sharing this rich history with my family, friends, colleagues, and…

— Jasmine Crockett

“But race in the United States is not a tidy matter. Only three of the submitted pieces explicitly referenced the future. Most of them…

— Jesmyn Ward

“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip…

— Bonnie Greer

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but…

— Carter G Woodson

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg