Black History Quotes - Page 9

• Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.

  James Forten

  Tyrants, America, Long

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• 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

  Achievement, Glory, Burden

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

  John Lewis

  Believe, Way, Nonviolence

  "John Lewis on 'March: Book One'". Printers Row Journal Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. August 23, 2013.

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• No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

  Whitney M. Young

  Race, Color, Skins

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

  Jessye Norman

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, Air

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

  Ethel Waters

  Black, Depends, Shaking

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• Be black, shine, aim high.

  Leontyne Price

  Shining, Aim High, Black

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

  Ralph Bunche

  Ideas, Want, Persons

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• We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

  Sojourner Truth

  Black, Want

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps.

  Ice Cube

  Men, Clouds, White Man

  Interview (2003), as quoted in "Black History Month: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. February 1, 2012.

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

  Chuck Berry

  Mad, Black, Prejudice

  "What I've Learned: Chuck Berry" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Black History Month should be celebrated everyday. It's a month that's kind of sad to me, because I am reminded of the struggles that people before us had to go through for us to be able to live comfortably today.

  Tamara James

  Struggle, People, Everyday

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• If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

  John Hope Franklin

  Motivational, Past, Order

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• No library of American business achievement is complete without the story of Arthur G. Gaston. . . . Black Titan is a long overdue contribution to the recording of not just black history, but American history.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Long, Achievement, Library

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• It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

  Eliot Engel

  Achievement, African American, Culture

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• I pay homage and respect to Bobby Womack [for Black History Month] knowing that he passed last year... Him being one of those artists that I have really sampled so much and just been so inspired by... You know, he is the original ‘soul man.’

  Big K.R.I.T.

  Artist, Men, Knowing

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• [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Past, Fire, Rope

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• When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Identity, Underdog

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• Black history isn’t a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  Karyn Parsons

  Kids, Views, Impact

  "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Marcus Garvey

  Self, Civilization, Progress

  Robert A. Hill, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association (1987). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. V: September 1922-August 1924”, p.633, Univ of California Press

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• 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

  Years, Want, Months

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

  Damien Lemon

  Valentine, Way, Months

  "MTV2's Guy Code Fellows Tell Us All About Love, Sex, & Relationships". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Everybody wants to have sex - you don't have to have a baby when you're 16. You don't have to do drugs. I think our Sunday schools should be turned into Black history schools and computer schools on the weekend, just like Hebrew schools for Jewish people, or my Asian friends who send their kids to schools on the weekend to learn Chinese or Korean.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Baby, Sex, School

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

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• Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.

  Ishmael Reed

  Character, Men, Intellectual

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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