History Quote by Riley Freeman

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an…

— Nipsey Hussle

“I keep thinking about Marcus Garvey and what he says about black people knowing themselves. It's clear that if the so-called Negro goes to…

— Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

I think Grandad's demise brought our family closer. He has been such a great personality and inspiration to us.

— Naga Chaitanya

American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

But an ordinary thing, history imma make. typically, those great have predetermined faith. Mostly 'cause niggas hate you, tryin to fill up your plate.…

— Wale

“Slavery isn’t Black history,” I point out. “It’s everyone’s history.” A”

— Jodi Picoult

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith

My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper…

— Kenneth Frazier

“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or…

— Brandi L. Bates

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

— Reggie Jackson

“The precise ancestry of a black drug dealer or cop killer is irrelevant. His blackness predicts and explains his crime. He reinforces the racist…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates