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80 Quotes That Celebrate Black Excellence Beyond February

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January 8, 2023 at 7:29 PM

1) Symone D. Sanders, Political Strategist

2) Morgan Freeman

3) Martin Luther King Jr.

4) Chadwick Boseman

5) Tamera Mowry-Housley

6) Oprah Winfrey

7) Denzel Washington

8) Claudette Colvin

9) Zora Neale Hurston

10) Janelle Monáe

11) Lupita Nyong'o

12) Queen Latifah

13) Michelle Obama

14) Megan Thee Stallion

15) Simone Biles

16) Tracee Ellis Ross

17) Priscilla Frederick

18) Angela Davis

19) Carol Moseley Braun

20) James Leonard Farmer Jr., Civil Rights Activist

21) Barack Obama

22) Steph Curry

23) Kamala Harris

24) Ella Baker

25) Meghan Markle

26) Janet Jackson

27) Coretta Scott King

28) Maya Angelou

29) Ola Joseph

30) Malcolm X

31) Rita Dove

32) Issa Rae

33) Gabrielle Union

34) Gabrielle Union

35) Shonda Rhimes

36) Shonda Rhimes

37) Ida B. Wells

38) Assata Shakur

39) Muhammad Ali

40) Ava DuVernay

41) Viola Davis

42) Lizzo

43) Marty Meehan

44) Janelle Monáe

45) Ida B. Wells

46) Arthur Ashe

47) Stacey Abrams

48) Toni Morrison

49) Misty Copeland

50) Misty Copeland

51) Claudette Colvin

52) Claudette Colvin

53) A. Philip Randolph

54) Susan L. Taylor

55) Harriet Tubman, on her first escape from slavery, 1845

56) Martin Luther King, Jr.

57) George Washington Carver

58) Michelle Obama

59) Tom Perez

60) Mae C. Jemison

61) Denzel Washington

62) Tim Wise

63) Reni Eddo-Lodge

64) Mary McLeod Bethune

65) Thurgood Marshall

66) Karyn Parsons

67) Yvette Clarke

68) Beyoncé

69) Ella Fitzgerald

70) John Lewis

71) Yara Shahidi

72) Rosa Parks

73) Kobe Bryant

74) W.E.B. Du Bois

75) Desmond Tutu

76) Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

77) James Baldwin

78) Aretha Franklin

79) Barbara Jordan

80) Marian Anderson Edelman

This small sampling of Black History Month quotes capture the triumphs, joy, and experiences of Black Americans.

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