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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

— August Wilson

During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers'…

— Tom Perez

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

— Maya Angelou

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

— Wadada Leo Smith

I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has…

— Jeff Sessions

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live…

— Anonymous

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want…

— Marley Dias