History Quote by James Baldwin

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“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

“It's the people who never learn the word impossible who make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin

The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history.…

— Malcolm X

“If we- and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the…

— James Baldwin

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

— Carter G. Woodson

“There is nothing comparable when to comes to the black man. He has no culture, no civilization, and no long historical past.”

— Frantz Faron

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back;…

— James Baldwin

“Because the whole world loves to tell us what we can’t do, that we aren’t good enough. The people in your own house should…

— Leigh Bardugo

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

— Ralph Nader

“For that more ennobling narrative, as for much of American history, the fact of black people is a problem.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates