"Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black."
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"Where white is black and black is white, I won."
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"It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar."
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"You take a poor black child. Give him a good education, tell him he's somebody, that God didn't create junk when he created him, and that black child will create his own affirmative action."
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"Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me"
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"Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?"
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"Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."
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"This is brain surgery. Ski masks on my bullets, let 'em commit brain burglary. Emergency, it's an emergency. Someone in all black left the whole scene burgundy."
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"I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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"The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know."
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"If you don't know what color to take, take black."
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"Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!"
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"People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad."
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"Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location."
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"Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life."
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"We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community."
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"While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish...""
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"The cruel of heart have their own black happiness."
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"Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith."
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