Top 28 African American Black History Quotes

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

Aberjhani

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#2. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

Bonnie Greer

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#3. She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.

Nathanael West

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#4. This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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#5. Sally looked over at him. "What, are you homophobic?"
"Nope," Morelli said. "I'm Italian. There's a difference.

Janet Evanovich

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#6. My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

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#7. Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

Fernando Pessoa

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#8. This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Donald Evans

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#9. 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. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

John Henrik Clarke

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#10. In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

Robert Fitzgerald

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#11. We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

Joseph Joubert

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#12. The white economic and political elite often failed to recognize blacks as American, just as blacks often failed to recognize their potential for advancement outside of the limited opportunities afforded them by whites.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#13. What these thinkers, chroniclers, and interpreters have written about, how they have theorized their scholarly endeavors, and their approaches and methodologies have inevitably been informed and shaped by the times in which they existed.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

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#14. It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Clement Alexander Price

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#15. Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?

Philip Dray

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#16. God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

Rabindranath Tagore

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#17. It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to. It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head.

Sarah Silverman

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#18. To handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. It kills one's aspirations and dooms him to vagabondage and crime.

Carter G. Woodson

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#19. Wealth is one of the keys to open paradise

Faiz Triumph

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#20. There's no doubt that many of the mainstream white institutions tend to be cosmetic and symbolic when it comes to including African-Americans, whereas we black folk tend to be much more sensitive about embracing others, and we have a long history of that.

Cornel West

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#21. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters

Larry McMurtry

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#22. Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician ... and we were all born to be magicians.

Dianna Hardy

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#23. Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

Richard K. Morgan

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#24. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Arthur Ashe

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#25. I plan to do more than just fuck you. I will stamp myself onto your soul." Yes,

Milly Taiden

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#26. The mainstreaming of African American history was a byproduct of the long black freedom struggle, the early black history movement, and the black student movement of the Black Power era.

Pero Gaglo Dagbovie

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#27. Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Yvette Clarke

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