Quotes on Black History Month

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

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.

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

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

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.

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

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.