227 Quotes About Black-history

I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams...

But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well.... But now that the Negro has rejected his role as an underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.