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Black Americans Quotes
Reflections on history, memory, and contribution.
These quotes about Black Americans reflect on how history books often narrow the story to slavery or civil rights, when, as one speaker notes, "there's so much more to the story." It connects with Appreciate quotes on recognizing contribution.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees. Official census records, used by so many genealogy enthusiasts to piece together their families' pasts, don't include our non-European ancestors.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know - as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans - that they've always been part of a struggle and that change isn't easy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest inspiration is black America and what they've done in the arts. I have always felt like an outsider in America, and what black Americans have done to add their chapter to this book called the American dream, and to be so unapologetic and true, and have added so much to art and culture in the world.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Harriet Washington, in 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present,' documents the smallpox experiments Thomas Jefferson performed on his Monticello slaves. In fact, much of what we now think of as public health emerged from the slave system.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Muhammad Ali is my hero. Yes, he was the best boxer in the world, but he also put himself on the line. He talked when black Americans had to be quiet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black Lives Matter is proving itself to seek only one end - and that is discord, alienation among Americans, rise in hate, and destruction of community bonds. The relative increase in justice afforded black Americans is of little concern, save as a convenient veneer for their anti-democratic mission.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As black Americans continue to be insulted and dismissed by protected white liberals, the Black Talented Tenth will continue to benefit from political donations, speaking engagements, national media presence, accolades as the official black leaders, and perpetual gigs on MSNBC and CNN.
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- Nov 07, 2020