"But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything."
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"Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything is either black or white."
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"Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness."
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"I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time."
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"I like black because it is a vacant space."
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"The toes of our ratty black sneakers touched."
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"I am a black new wave artist."
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"Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from."
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"As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He seemed set on course to become just as reckless a godfather to Teddy Lupin as Sirius Black had been to him."
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"I look at modeling as something I'm doing for black people in general."
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"Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest."
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"I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street."
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"Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly."
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"If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?"
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"I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America."
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"In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term."
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"Why can't the black man have a God? What's so wrong when a black man says his God will protect him form his white foe? If Jehovah can slay Philistines for the Jews, why can't Allah slay crackers for the so-called Negro?"
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"I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red."
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"There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity."
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"Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone."
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