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"I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more."
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"You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there's something wrong."
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"A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage."
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"George W. Bush doesn't care about black people."
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"Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance."
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"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town."
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"The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it."
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"No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman."
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"Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones."
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"Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff."
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"What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?"
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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
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"PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums."
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"Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes."
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"It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love."
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"Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm."
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"If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, "That joke offended me," I'm still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them."
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"Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature."
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"If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes."
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