Black History Quotes

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

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

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

What if history was changed? slavery reversed Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

I do consider myself part of black history.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a history lesson. These are ways to make the film feel niche and not for everyone.

According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change and progress do not always accept their destinies willingly.

Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.

IF YOU AIN'T RAISING THE VIBRATION YOU ARE KILLING THE VIBE!

IF SOMEONE KEEPS DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOINGTHEY WILL GET BETTER AT IT, BUT.... THEY STILL WON'T BE BETTER THEN YOU!KEEP PUSHING!

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.