227 Quotes About Black-history
- Author Crystal Robinson
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Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate everyday like it is Black History month by living our lives and aspiring to be all we can. Many people lost their lives for us to have the privileges we have so we need to honor them by striving to be the best we can be.
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- Author Ishmael Reed
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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.
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- Author Sojourner Truth
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We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.
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- Author Alice Walker
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If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
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- Author Booker T. Washington
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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- Author Cornel West
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Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.
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- Author Derek Walcott
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… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
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- Author Ethel Waters
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I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
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- Author Ida B. Wells
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I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.
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