Black Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I do consider myself part of black history.

— Mary J. Blige

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of…

— Oprah Winfrey

“There is no black history month, the entire human race calendar is black.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for…

— Lupita Nyong'o

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come…

— Booker T. Washington

If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o’-the-wisps…

— Anonymous

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

— Carl Hart

I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

— Alice Walker

The importance of Black History transcends any one month or day.

— Byron Donalds