Quotes about Black history

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Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the — Tim Wise
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most person — Tim Wise
One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so f — W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Black seamen - or "Black Jacks" as African sailors were known - enjoyed a refreshing world of liberty and equality. Even — Tony Williams, The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny
TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT hate white people.TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.TRUE Hebrew Israel — Alex Hartley Jr.
You got a child to feed and a life to get on with. — Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
All blood runs red. — Phrase painted on the side of the plane flown by Eugene Bullard in World War I the first black comba
I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when paired t — Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
That was when I realized we weren’t born to beslaves. It was ignorant for any man to think he could be the master of ano — Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
But when they brought Sabira out, the crowd parted almost magically. A sea of hands rose faster than a swell and a biddi — Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
Besides the moral courage required to accept commissions in the Fifty-fourth at the time it was organizing, physical cou — Luis Fenollosa Emilio, History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865
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
There ain't no haints in Detroit. — Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
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
Marie's loud protestations about the lack of black history celebrations in town had resulted in a sheepish and hastily t — Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You, Charlie Freeman
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