"Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others."
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"I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery."
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"Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal."
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"The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic."
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"When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look."
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"Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this."
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"Know the white, But keep the black, Be an example to the world! Being an example to the world, Ever true and unwavering, Return to the infinite."
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"I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor than a ghost hunter."
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"Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect."
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"And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate."
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"I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness."
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"I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954."
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"Race I've been studying since I knew there was a problem with race and that I was Black and something was wrong. Gender, is very new to me. All I can say is this is something that I'm going to take hold of and pray about it."
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"If it's necessary to form a Black Nationalist army, we'll form a Black Nationalist army. It'll be ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death."
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"He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black."
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"Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men."
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"When you want a nation, that's called nationalism... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation."
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"The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that if the - what should happen is the black man himself should learn how to develop himself, in the same sense that the white man has developed himself. Then they can both come together and recognize each other as equals."
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"After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad."
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"If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself."
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