Top 35 Quotes For Black History Month
#1. I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.
Damien Lemon
#2. I look around. You'd have to be out of your fucking mind to write, as Marcus did, that Black History Month is a ploy to lever more entitlement money out of Congress, but the ho-hum nonresponse of the white crowd reading this bit of transparent insanity is, to me, even weirder.
Matt Taibbi
#3. 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
#4. The violence that undergirded the country, so flagrantly on display during Black History Month, and the intimate violence of "Yeah, nigger, what's up now?" were not unrelated. And this violence was not magical, but was of a piece and by design.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#5. I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
Morgan Freeman
#6. They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
Rush Limbaugh
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Black History Month has been extended indefinitely by The Bronzeville Press.
Harold Lee Rush
#10. Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.
Marty Meehan
#11. 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
#12. If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
Lynn Swann
#16. 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.
Mo Rocca
#17. Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others.
Aurin Squire
#18. I became an actress because I discovered the world of the imagination when I was about 14 or so and the concept that you could engage in this amazing world of storytelling. I saw a production of Hamlet, and I didn't know Hamlet died in the end.
Helen Mirren
#19. I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.
Jerry Rice
#20. How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!
Morgan Freeman
#21. For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
Ernie Els
#22. When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts of their lives [are] less relevant. This lowered value carries over when women face sexual objectification and systemic brutalization from inside and outside the community.
Aurin Squire
#23. Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.
Angela Davis
#24. The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
Karyn Parsons
#25. I have the strangest feeling that he's aware of me as I am of him.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
Aberjhani
#27. Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
Aurin Squire
#28. It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.
Hippocrates
#29. Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.
Albert B. Cleage Jr.
#30. I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.
Lee Child
#31. Latinos outnumber Black people now. I'm not too happy about it. Because it's only a matter of time before we lose our month. Soon as they figure it out, they're going to have Latino History Month. All we're going to have is Cinco de Negro.
Alonzo Bodden
#32. 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.
Aberjhani
#34. There's a tremendous power and energy in sharing your life with another person.
Jerry Seinfeld
#35. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
Michel De Montaigne
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