African american Quote by Rita Dove
“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 way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down, never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.”
![“I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the…” quote by Jacob Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53f/jacob-lawrence-42624_artist_i-ve-always-been-interested-in-history-b_212404.jpg)
