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It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

I feel there should be blacks in every Party.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.

Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.