"The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword."
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"If you're a black man, they really call you out and have you deal with them."
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"When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect."
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"It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited."
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"When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do."
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"Of course I'm a black writer... I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call "literature" is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche."
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"Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured."
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"Womanists is what black feminists used to call themselves. Very much so. They were not the same thing. And also the relationship with men. Historically, black women have always sheltered their men because they were out there, and they were the ones that were most likely to be killed."
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"I still have the Antonio Banderas outfit from when I toured with Noel Fielding. I kept that outfit, and if you guys want it back, forget about it. It's mine. Silky silky. My silky, silky shirt is mine. My black pants are mine. And the boot is mine!"
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"Of course, there isn't really a black population in Idaho or Utah."
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"Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle."
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"When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that."
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"We don't live in a world that's black and white."
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"Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out."
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"It's old white ladies, old black ladies, old black men, who don't even listen. Everyone else, everyone who understands, likes Snoop Dogg. They like my music."
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"The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain"
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"In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months."
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"I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives."
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"As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated."
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"Is it possible that more black people hate the President than are actually alive?"
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