Kendrick Lamar
Rapper, Songwriter
"I was a black sheep, but now I'm just a goat"
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Snoop Dogg
Rapper, Actor
"Trump says he wants to run for president. Why not? It wouldn't be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
Shel Silverstein
Poet, Songwriter, Author
"I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits?"
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"Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe."
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"When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want."
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"This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto."
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"I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again."
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"In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism."
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"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat."
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"We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right."
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"Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression."
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"I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men."
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"Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough."
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"We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party."
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"At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE."
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"I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever."
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"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people."
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
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"Love is the new denim or black"
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"To be young, gifted and black!"
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"Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias."
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"I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke."
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