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Black history is American history.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through.

I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.