Black History Quotes: top 90 famous quotes about Black History

Black History Quotes & Sayings

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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. — Timothy B. Tyson

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition. — Eugene Rivers

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history. — Conrad Black

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice. — R H Sin

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed. — Jesse Jackson

So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city. — Junius Williams

Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement. — Albert B. Cleage Jr.

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

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white. — Anastasia Griffith

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

Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs! — Me

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, Ugly is, as Ugly does! — Lorene Stunson Hill

Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters. — Aurin Squire

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 will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long. — Langston Hughes

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

This fantasy about the disposability of black life is a constant in American history. — Teju Cole

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. — Branch Rickey

No guy in the history of America has ordered a Smirnoff Ice at a bar without hating himself a little. — Jay Black

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

Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter. — Rachel E. Carter

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are. — Malidoma Patrice Some

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

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

All business is personal ... Make your friends before you need them. — Robert Johnson

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. — Arthur Ashe

Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. — James Weldon Johnson

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

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

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. — Tananarive Due

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up. — Henry Louis Gates

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

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person. — Ralph Bunche

In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India. — Trevor McDonald

I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. — John Lewis

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

It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. — Donna Tartt

Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group. — Junius Williams

Oh, I'm following President Obama on Twitter. I like my black history in 140 characters or less. — Baratunde R. Thurston

Every nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too. — Booker T. Washington

How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me. — Jay Grewal

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. — Kara Walker

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

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized. — Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

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

There ain't no haints in Detroit. — Angela Flournoy

Black History Month has been extended indefinitely by The Bronzeville Press. — Harold Lee Rush

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it! — Morgan Freeman

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

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black

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

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school. — Chris Rock

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

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

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

I had never run a campaign, but I was an organizer. My job was to create momentum by mobilizing the constituency we had, which I was positioned to do. — Junius Williams

Even though it is black, black as Egypt's night, the customer is always right — Andrew Ewing

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet. — Dick Gregory

Slavery isn't Black history," I point out. "It's everyone's history." A — Jodi Picoult

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work. — Marty Meehan

$1,200, That was the price of a man in those days. Now you can call him black, or you can call him a slave, but he was a man nonetheless. — Jay Grewal

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives. — William Lacy Clay Jr.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word. — Chuck Berry

First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now. — Meek Mill

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

every time this happens
I see my father
my brother
my would be son
I see myself
stop killing us — R H Sin

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. — Morgan Freeman

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

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her. — Angela Flournoy

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

Where history concerns mainly personalities, the drawings become either black or white according to the interests of the writer. — Isaac Asimov

If you are a black woman, you get two history months in a row. — Artie Lange

When I think of black television and history, I always use 'The Cosby Show' as the bar. — Wendy Raquel Robinson

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. — Black Elk