Quotes about Black history month

Explore a curated collection of 17 quotes about Black history month at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Black history month from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the Uni — Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change — Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder. — Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography
There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that th — Cornel West, Black Prophetic Fire
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by fin — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
When female stories are muted, we are teaching our kids that their dignity is second class and the historical accounts o — Aurin Squire
Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Be perfectly okay with being who YOU are. Fully embrace yourself, flaws and all. Love your — Stephanie Lahart
Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe t — W.E.B. Du Bois, The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matt — Aurin Squire
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more — Clement Alexander Price, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
Most people write me off when they see me.They do not know my story.They say I am just an African.They judge me before t — Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen– — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, t — Aberjhani, The American Poet Who Went Home Again