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African-American history is American history.
JOYCE WILLIAMS It?s good because the kids get an appreciation for African-American history.
COY PILSON I became interested in all the history of African-American people that had been left out of school a...
JACQUI LEWIS![]()
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Black history is celebrated only one month (in February) and then that's it, it's over. It should be...
BARRY PURVIS![]()
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans h...
YVETTE CLARKE![]()
Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are no...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think about how this was a part of history. I knew it was important back then, sure. But I didn't ...
DICK BLAKE Mayor Miller, you have a history of attacking appointed African-American representatives on boards a...
JOYCE FOREMAN This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on t...
LONNIE BUNCH It's important for us to see and to know this is a part of our history, not just black history but A...
JEFFERSON RUSSELL We do community canvases throughout the year using artists that are well known. But because the work...
BEN CLARK The history of printing is an integral part of the general history of civilization. The principal ve...
S.H. STEINBERG One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many A...
MICHAEL DAWSON This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomp...
JOHN AMOS There are many African-Americans who really don't know what their family history is, and so they're ...
ELBRA WEDGEWORTH![]()
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN I think this is a monumental move by our state. This acknowledges our African-American history. This...
BETTY ANDREWS Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was...
JACQUELINE WOODSON![]()
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become ...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY![]()
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. J...
RAND PAUL He is definitely one of the top historians in the country today. He's definitely the most visible. E...
JOHN KRUGLER![]()
We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h...
MORGAN FREEMAN My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE We felt that the best way to reach the community is to start during a month where you focus on Afric...
GEORGE TERRELL![]()
For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about Afri...
CARLOS WALLACE![]()
Black history is American history.
MORGAN FREEMAN Black history is American History.
BRYANT JOHNSON In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to...
LONNIE BUNCH The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds ...
CHERYL MILLS![]()
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their p...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE![]()
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all ...
MAYA ANGELOU Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, an...
KARYN PARSONS I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
TIM VINE![]()
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities...
HARLEY WILLIAMS Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence. Today the U.S. Supreme Court has s...
BARBARA BECNEL Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court h...
BARBARA BECNEL American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be descr...
CHAD HARBACH![]()
Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other cont...
DIANE RAVITCH R.C. Hickman's work poignantly captures the social history of African Americans in a period of unequ...
ANGELA WILLIAMS![]()
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
WOODROW WILSON![]()
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE![]()
The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE![]()
History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign p...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canad...
DAVE FOLEY It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on t...
JAMIN RASKIN Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
BILL BUFORD This is a growth unprecedented in the history of American Jewry.
JEFF KLEIN This is a significant moment in women's history, but also in American history,
DONNA SHALALA![]()
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w...
JARED DIAMOND![]()
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrat...
ELIOT ENGEL The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American pe...
JAMES R. CLAPPER His history of exploiting African-Americans means he is going to have to prove himself.
BARRY SAUNDERS Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
LOUIS R. CHENEVERT![]()
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
CONOR OBERST Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in th...
ARIEL DORFMAN I am fascinated by African history, its leaders, humanity and camaraderie. I am optimistic that one ...
RANKOPA HERMAN MOLEFI![]()
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS![]()
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am...
DORIS LESSING![]()
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splinterin...
GEORGE AYITTEY![]()
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
TED NUGENT![]()
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...
ABERJHANI![]()
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w...
JARED DIAMOND![]()
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona...
MARCIA FUDGE![]()
Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each ...
GWEN IFILL![]()
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The jury selection system in this District has a history of substantially under-representing African...
ART LEACH It is history. It's American history and to have the state do this for us, to say, 'hey we appreciat...
LORAN SMITH Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG![]()
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
MIKE FITZPATRICK![]()
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? Histor...
ALAN BENNETT No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON![]()
George W. Bush is the worst President
in all of American history.
HELEN THOMAS Historically, the presence of African Americans in big-top performances is very rare. That's what Ce...
JANET DAVIS Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their...
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY") It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY")![]()
He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law.
CASS SUNSTEIN The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the ...
PETER NAVARRO![]()
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON![]()
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the pu...
HENRY LOUIS GATES I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is ...
KEN MEHLMAN I hope they will understand, through the presentations, the background of African Americans and thei...
DONNA MCGEE I don't even know how he could form his mouth to say that. (Freeman) showed how backwards he is. Obv...
CONRAD WORRILL It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, real...
CATHY ELKIES [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ...
EARL GRAVES The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST![]()
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accompl...
BERNIE SANDERS I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to de...
RASHID JOHNSON![]()
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
JULIAN ASSANGE February is Black History Month. This is such an appropriate time to honor these people who have mad...
MARIE RENAUD![]()
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American...
RAND PAUL![]()
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS![]()
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize anot...
ROBERT TOOMBS Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
SCOTT ANDERSON rejection, ordered a series of aerial attacks on the Royal Air Force bases and radar stations in sou...
HOURLY HISTORY
JOYCE WILLIAMS It?s good because the kids get an appreciation for African-American history.
COY PILSON I became interested in all the history of African-American people that had been left out of school a...
JACQUI LEWIS
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legi... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Black history is celebrated only one month (in February) and then that's it, it's over. It should be...
BARRY PURVIS
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans h... YVETTE CLARKE
Yes, immigrants and immigration have been an important part of the American history. But they are no... SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON I think about how this was a part of history. I knew it was important back then, sure. But I didn't ...
DICK BLAKE Mayor Miller, you have a history of attacking appointed African-American representatives on boards a...
JOYCE FOREMAN This is how to understand America. So having the Museum of African American History and Culture on t...
LONNIE BUNCH It's important for us to see and to know this is a part of our history, not just black history but A...
JEFFERSON RUSSELL We do community canvases throughout the year using artists that are well known. But because the work...
BEN CLARK The history of printing is an integral part of the general history of civilization. The principal ve...
S.H. STEINBERG One of the themes throughout African-American history, going back to before the Civil War, is many A...
MICHAEL DAWSON This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomp...
JOHN AMOS There are many African-Americans who really don't know what their family history is, and so they're ...
ELBRA WEDGEWORTH
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. MORGAN FREEMAN I think this is a monumental move by our state. This acknowledges our African-American history. This...
BETTY ANDREWS Before Grandma died, she talked about family history in a way she had never done before, ... She was...
JACQUELINE WOODSON
In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. J... RAND PAUL He is definitely one of the top historians in the country today. He's definitely the most visible. E...
JOHN KRUGLER
We are all part of American history. Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American h... MORGAN FREEMAN My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE We felt that the best way to reach the community is to start during a month where you focus on Afric...
GEORGE TERRELL
For so-called conscious rappers, it is an opportunity to rap about ways to educate others about Afri... CARLOS WALLACE
Black history is American history. MORGAN FREEMAN Black history is American History.
BRYANT JOHNSON In some ways, this museum in Washington gets to do something very important, ... It can be a lens to...
LONNIE BUNCH The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds ...
CHERYL MILLS
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their p... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all ... MAYA ANGELOU Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, an...
KARYN PARSONS I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
TIM VINE
The history of the world is the world's court of justice. FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The staff and one of our PTO subcommittees have worked very hard to develop a calendar of activities...
HARLEY WILLIAMS Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence. Today the U.S. Supreme Court has s...
BARBARA BECNEL Today is a shameful day in the history of American jurisprudence, ... Today the U.S. Supreme Court h...
BARBARA BECNEL American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be descr...
CHAD HARBACH
Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other cont... DIANE RAVITCH R.C. Hickman's work poignantly captures the social history of African Americans in a period of unequ...
ANGELA WILLIAMS
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. WOODROW WILSON
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE
The history of mankind is a history of war. MIKE LOVE
History has been the history of warfare. GODFREY REGGIO The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign p...
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canad...
DAVE FOLEY It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on t...
JAMIN RASKIN Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.
BILL BUFORD This is a growth unprecedented in the history of American Jewry.
JEFF KLEIN This is a significant moment in women's history, but also in American history,
DONNA SHALALA
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w... JARED DIAMOND
It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrat... ELIOT ENGEL The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American pe...
JAMES R. CLAPPER His history of exploiting African-Americans means he is going to have to prove himself.
BARRY SAUNDERS Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
LOUIS R. CHENEVERT
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. CONOR OBERST Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in th...
ARIEL DORFMAN I am fascinated by African history, its leaders, humanity and camaraderie. I am optimistic that one ...
RANKOPA HERMAN MOLEFI
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. WELLS
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Am... DORIS LESSING
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es... HAROLD ROSENBERG African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splinterin...
GEORGE AYITTEY
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry... TED NUGENT
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ... ABERJHANI
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond w... JARED DIAMOND
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona... MARCIA FUDGE
Once they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each ... GWEN IFILL
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. POPE JOHN PAUL II The jury selection system in this District has a history of substantially under-representing African...
ART LEACH It is history. It's American history and to have the state do this for us, to say, 'hey we appreciat...
LORAN SMITH Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. MIKE FITZPATRICK
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? Histor... ALAN BENNETT No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON
George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
HELEN THOMAS Historically, the presence of African Americans in big-top performances is very rare. That's what Ce...
JANET DAVIS Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their...
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY") It is better to be envied than pitied.
HERODOTUS ("FATHER OF HISTORY")
He is unquestionably one of the most important figures in the history of American law. CASS SUNSTEIN The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the ...
PETER NAVARRO
One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON
So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the pu... HENRY LOUIS GATES I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is ...
KEN MEHLMAN I hope they will understand, through the presentations, the background of African Americans and thei...
DONNA MCGEE I don't even know how he could form his mouth to say that. (Freeman) showed how backwards he is. Obv...
CONRAD WORRILL It really is an opportunity for a piece of The Plaza. It is New York history and world history, real...
CATHY ELKIES [In the auto industry, for example,] There is no American car made that does not have parts made by ...
EARL GRAVES The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
BILL FRIST
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accompl... BERNIE SANDERS I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to de...
RASHID JOHNSON
In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. JULIAN ASSANGE February is Black History Month. This is such an appropriate time to honor these people who have mad...
MARIE RENAUD
The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese American... RAND PAUL
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons... W.E.B. DU BOIS
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize anot... ROBERT TOOMBS Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
SCOTT ANDERSON rejection, ordered a series of aerial attacks on the Royal Air Force bases and radar stations in sou...
HOURLY HISTORY
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... 
There are a few chances in life where you get to take a different road. I think it's important t... 
I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.' 
It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in... 
I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges. 
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. 
To me, it's not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love ... 
My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. 
I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We&#... 
I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the cou... 
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ... 
To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from ... 
The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. 
Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held. 
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. 
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lo... 
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the ... 
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. 
You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. 
Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion. 
Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful. 
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - ... 
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He... 
The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material righ... 
Let others either envy or pity me; I care not, so long as I enjoy myself. 