American history Quote by Maya Angelou

“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

Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean…

— Carlos Fuentes

As an African-American, as a woman, I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the…

— Rita Dove

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

I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding.…

— Bocafloja

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much…

— Luis J. Rodriguez

We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to…

— August Wilson

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

“Whether white, black, Asian, or Latino, American students rarely arrive at college as habitual readers, which means that few of them have more than…

— David Denby

Within the model minority rhetoric, Asian Americans are represented as “good” minorities and African Americans are represented as “bad” minorities. Here, the achievements of…

— Jennifer Lee