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So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.
— Junius Williams
If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
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.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
— Agnes Varda
When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar.
— Wendy Raquel Robinson
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
— Octavia E. Butler
How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
— Morgan Freeman
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
— Jesse Jackson
You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people,
— Elbert Guillory
Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer.
— Isaac Asimov
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.
— Willard Wigan
A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
— Angela Flournoy
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
— Arthur Ashe
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
— Aurin Squire
I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
There ain't no haints in Detroit.
— Angela Flournoy
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls and hieroglyphics are to us.
— Brent Staples
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams ...
— Langston Hughes
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
— Susan L. Taylor
I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos.
— Sun Ra
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
— Dorothy Cotton
Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.
— Junius Williams
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
— Conrad Black
You got a child to feed and a life to get on with.
— Angela Flournoy