If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist.
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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.
I do consider myself part of black history.
Every day of my life I walk with the idea that I am black, no matter how successful I am. And our success is tempered by that; you're successful in this way given the fact you are black, and most blacks don't get to that point.
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
Black history is American history.
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
The less I talk about being black, the better.
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