From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.
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Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.
We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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.
The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
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