Acceptance Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

“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 acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily.…

— John Henrik Clarke

“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our…

— William Silverman

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be?…

— August Wilson

The thing is, so much of the African American experience is about the redefinition of roots because of slavery. We were uprooted, and there's…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip…

— Bonnie Greer

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

— Assata Shakur

“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. You must…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute…

— Alan Watts

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and…

— Danny K. Davis

White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of…

— Huey Newton

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people…

— Beth Macy