"I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That's true not just black people to black people; that's human being to human being."
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"Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life."
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"There ought to be a robust, uninhibited conversation in black America with different black ideological perspectives."
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"Black people have been working hard for decades."
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"I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered."
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"Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics?"
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"Jesus loves a free black man."
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"The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions."
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"When black America is on the move, America is on the move."
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"The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence."
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"Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense."
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"But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism."
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"For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'"
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"Utah could elect its first black Republican woman to Congress. In other words, Utah finally got one black person and the first thing they want to do is send her to Washington."
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"This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!"
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"You are not a black hole that needs to be filled; you are a light that needs to be shined."
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"Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit"
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"For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent."
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"My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor."
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"I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio."
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