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We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.
I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
I went to school with a lot of kids whose fathers and mothers were part of the El Paso black history.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.
I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.
If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year, and the coldest-just in case we want to have a parade
Black History Month is a poignant time for the entire country, but particularly the African American community.
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.
America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.
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.
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
'Smart, Funny and Black' is about celebrating, critiquing and learning about black culture, black history, and the black experience.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Through the years, Madam Walker has certainly become a staple of anything that has to do with black history, women's history and entrepreneurship.
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 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.
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.
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.
We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.
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.
The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.