"I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election."
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"No black or white America-just United States of America."
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"Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity."
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"There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President."
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"If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices."
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"Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported."
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"There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America."
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"All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to my success because when I meet people, I see a piece of myself in them. And maybe they see a piece of themselves in me."
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"Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident."
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"There was a time when black and navy blue suits were pretty much everything you saw. That has completely changed. People are wearing big checks, checks with browns and blues and shades of gray, and the scale is very large, and some of them are very bold with heavy contrasts."
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"Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate. "They are called Urim and Thummim. The black signifies 'yes,' and the white 'no.' When you are unable to read the omens, they will help you to do so. Always ask an objective question."
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"Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black."
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"The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note."
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"I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour."
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"Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black."
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"I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year."
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"Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts."
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"Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor."
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"You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress."
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"Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist."
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