Black History Quotes
124 Black History quotes by 82 unique authors
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in…
— Richard Allen
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Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides…
— James Forten
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The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you…
— Jesse Jackson
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I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
— John Lewis
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
— Whitney M. Young
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White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our…
— Huey Newton
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
— Frederick Douglass
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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
— James Weldon Johnson
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
— Audre Lorde
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What's shaking, chiefy baby?
— Thurgood Marshall
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American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.
— Toni Morrison
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find…
— Jessye Norman
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Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing…
— Satchel Paige
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
— Ethel Waters
Who Wrote These Black History Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 124 Black History Quotes, led by these top contributors: