"Black people don’t have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Topic(s):
History
More From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- "Your mind is what makes everything else work."
- "In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story."
- "The ’80s made up for all the abuse I took during the ’70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."
More In History
- "My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage."― Kenneth G. Wilson
- "History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."― Malcolm X
- "‘WASP’ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not."― Christopher Hitchens