What Color Is My World? Quotes

“Black Thomas Edison’ because of all his inventions. In fact, Edison even tried to hire Woods. Alexander Graham Bell’s company bought Woods’s ‘telegraphony’ invention.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

“twenty percent of all the electricity in the U.S. comes from nuclear energy. That is thanks to Dr. Henry T. Sampson, who invented the gamma electric cell, which makes it possible to convert nuclear radiation into electricity.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

“In truth, all inventors only improve on what’s come before them. They should be called innovators rather than inventors.”
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors