"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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"We lost the skyline We stepped right off the map Drifted into black space And let the clocks relapse."
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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
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"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer."
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"Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens."
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"Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel."
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"I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep."
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"I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read"
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"George Bush doesn't care about black people."
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"Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me."
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"I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied."
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"If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'"
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"I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am."
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"America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants."
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"To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant state of rage."
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"The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men."
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