"Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers."
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"Over the years, black leaders have been slow to recognize the need for a very, very progressive agenda. Anytime someone has talked about putting America back to work, blacks should have said yes, but they didn't. They were so preoccupied with affirmative action that they didn't provide the kind of leadership that would help some of the other progressive folks. Only now are black leaders beginning to realize the impact of economic issues."
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"I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction."
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"in black ink my love may still shine bright."
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"I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything."
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"The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil."
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"This year I'm a star, but what will I be next year? A black hole?"
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"Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve."
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"Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world."
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"I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood."
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"It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black."
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"Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said."
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"I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff."
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"This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods."
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"Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight."
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"...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears."
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"Light black. From pole to pole."
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"I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow."
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"We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him."
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"Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well."
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