Black History Quotes

Black History Quote of the day

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

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

Black History Month must be more than just a month of remembrance; it should be a tribute to our history and reminder of the work that lies in the months and years ahead.

The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Be black, shine, aim high.

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.

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.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

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.

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

What's shaking, chiefy baby?

[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.

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.

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

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.