Quotes about Black history

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every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us — R.H. Sin
You have a color of your own- Dark chocolate,You have a culture your own- Hip pop,You have a revival of your own- Harlem — Luffina Lourduraj
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.
THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its dai — Brandi L. Bates, Remains To Be Seen
There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds o — Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
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
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does! — Lorene Stunson Hill, To Dance with Ugly People
Won't reparations divide us? Not any more than we are already divided. The wealth gap merely puts a number on something — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations
Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - d — Lyndon B. Johnson
Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s an — Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
The official erasure of any existence before enslavement – as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the c — Bonnie Greer, A Parallel Life
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction. — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no r — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
Tolstoy was a Caucasian, Gandhi was an Asian, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Negro, yet all of their hearts were inspi — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of t — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individual’s intelligence – — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
In the biological sense, race does not exist. — Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know witho — Andrena Sawyer
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.