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"The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face."
"I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on."
"I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition."
"Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too."
"If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program."
"I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside."
"One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female."
"I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison."
"Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd was the first person in rock I had seen with makeup on. He wore black nail polish and lots of mascara and black eye shadow, and he was so mysterious. It was this androgynous thing I found absolutely fascinating."
"Actually, when I was little I even dreamed about riding a black cat."
"I was born a poor black child."
"I don't want to be known as the black model. I want to be recognized as Chanel Iman, a personality."
"I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around"
"We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black community."
"Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that."
"I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses."
"Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us."
"This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end."
"At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat."
"Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility."
