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I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's s...

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I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of ...

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The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: o...

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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you ca...

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Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, m...

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Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go runn...

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Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion ...

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I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally i...

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Chuck KlostermanI Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too....

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...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on...

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I've been a Robert Randolph fan forever, since 2001. I just thought he was so cool; you don't see a ...

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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...

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I think it's unfortunate that there exists only one path in America to complete social legitimacy, a...

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An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never...

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The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At ...

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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...

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I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and o...

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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion ...

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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and whit...

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One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellying...

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H. G. WellsThe War of the Worlds

I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is...

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the...

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Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class wit...

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I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacifi...

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I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funn...

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Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward i...

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We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's wh...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The fact that we elected Obama was a sign that the black struggle inherent in the blues and so much ...

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It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...

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People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...

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After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...

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I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...

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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...

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When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That...

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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It w...

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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. ...

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A black hole really is an object with very rich structure, just like Earth has a rich structure of m...

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I like black because it is a vacant space.

If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the...

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I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be represented ...

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Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is ...

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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...

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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black R...

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But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly label...

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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U...

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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay,...

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When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked...

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The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...

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How’s things, man?” The black man extended his hand for a handshake. Mathematical formulae were jott...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, b...

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Mircea EliadeThe Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to th...

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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spir...

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but bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysicaldilemma/ i havent conquered yet/ do yo...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventio...

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I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw E...

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The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a bla...

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The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in ...

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I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all...

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I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or...

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Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatt...

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After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean ...

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The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...

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Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find?

I'm American. Why didn't I say I was African American? Because I'm in a foreign country? But can I r...

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I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the fie...

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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...

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When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I i...

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Stephen CraneComplete Poems of Stephen Crane

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...

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Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

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the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The trap had a ghastly perfection

The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go

There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the goo...

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Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

There's a hole in the world like a big black pit who are filled with people who are filled with shit...

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Stephen SondheimSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street