"Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power."
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"In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like."
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"The Word is the Magic that Humans possess and misuse of the Word is Black Magic... Be Impeccable with Your Word."
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"There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into."
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"On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I could see the space shuttle highlighted against the Earth in the background, and there was this black, infinite, hostile void of space. I remember looking down at the Earth and thinking, "Beneath me is a 4½-billion-year-old planet, upon which the entire history of the human species has taken place." That was an incredibly humbling moment, and I had a bit of an epiphany."
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"A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God."
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"Being a blues singer is like being black two times."
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"In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope."
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"If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have."
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"The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues."
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"You see, in recent history, the Democrat party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what's best for black people."
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"They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission."
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"Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against."
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"White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others."
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"Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world."
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"If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists."
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"God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple."
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"The first black president will be a politician who is black."
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"I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly."
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"Black is the Color and none is the number"
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