"Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress."
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"I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar."
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"I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church."
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"No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!"
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"Black, like white, is the best color!"
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"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman."
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"A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality."
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"Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other - male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it."
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"She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought."
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"I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American."
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"There is a huge fan base for the Black Panther comic and for Marvel as a whole. And I think there is great anticipation across the board for the movie. I think that's how Marvel is approaching it and I know that's how I'm approaching it."
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"I wear the black for those who never read."
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"We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future."
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"I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white."
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"It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it."
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"When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power."
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"I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake."
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"I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death."
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"Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . ."
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"Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun."
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