Top 40 Black History Quotes

I performed in high school for Black History Month at a talent show, but besides that I didn’t have the resources to perform so I spent my time as a teenager writing music.

Black history is American history.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

The Republican Party’s history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

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

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.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Black History Month is fine, but we need more months of the year to celebrate all the people on this earth. After all, we’re all creatures of the same God.

Black History Month is a poignant time for the entire country, but particularly the African American community.

People ask me why my figures have to be so black. There are a lot of reasons. First, the blackness is a rhetorical device. When we talk about ourselves as a people and as a culture, we talk about black history, black culture, black music. That’s the rhetorical position we occupy.

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It’s about who’s getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I’m trying to put those bits back in.

I love Black History Month and celebrating my ancestral roots, but not just my blackness, which is so beautiful. But my Tahitian and my Italian – everything that makes me, me.

I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Jesus’ birthday is commercialized, so of course, Black History Month is commercialized.

You know, when you’ve idolized something, you put it on a shelf, lift it up, and when King Day comes out, you pull it out and show it. Or when Black History Month comes out, you show it, or when April 4th or other times, you show it. But, you see, Dad wouldn’t want us to idolize.

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

During Black History Month, I’m reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers’ rights.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

Black History in 2019 and beyond is all about inclusivity.

To be honest, I think Black History Month, it’s become much bigger than it used to be because a lot of people are doing different things, different things with it. It’s an American import, which hasn’t always fitted exactly with what I would call British and Commonwealth history.

When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I’m saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I’m not judging; I’m coming from experience.

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she’s gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.

I do consider myself part of black history.

Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Color Purple’ might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running for office and raising two young, Black boys in the South, I am acutely aware that I stand on the shoulders of giants.

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

‘Smart, Funny and Black’ is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.

Anyone can look to someone like Ruby Bridges and be inspired. We wanted to emphasize that this really is all of our history and that Black history shouldn’t just be segmented into one month and we just move on. This is a huge part of the fabric of our country.

If people perceive ‘Roots’ to be a black history show, nobody is going to watch it.

What’s so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, ‘What? Why?’ We – the parents of black children, the parents of all children – still need to tell that story.

History is so deep, especially black history, so I have a lot to learn.

I went to white schools and I didn’t know anything about black history.

I’m a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.

All kids of all races need to understand, not just about black history but their own history. It’s something that will help you in the future, just in terms of moving on in life, understanding the things your ancestors had to go through.