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You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.

— Morgan Freeman

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Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

To go somewhere and say: 'I have this really terrific movie, but I need some . . . money' - Good luck!

{African Americans} have fought and died in every conflict this nation was involved in, from the Revolutionary War onward . . . . We are Americans, and we fought and died to be Americans.

Discussing the US Civil War film Glory (1989)

The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose - do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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