I do consider myself part of black history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Black history is American history.
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.
I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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.
Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.
The less I talk about being black, the better.
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.