"Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always."
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"Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black."
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"It's a good time for black people to be alive."
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"I'm responsible for what i did. I'm not responible for what every black male did. Yes! I call myself a THUG, because i grew up in the ghetto. And im still standing."
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"Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'"
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"I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
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"All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them."
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"The devil is not as black as he is painted."
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"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are."
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"Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that.""
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"There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried."
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"That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I would think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
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"I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture."
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"I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'"
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"It's always darkest before it becomes totally black."
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"Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness."
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"Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero."
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"I'm African American / I'm African / I'm black as the moon."
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"You can wear black in any moment of the day, no matter your age. You can wear black with almost any occasion. A black dress is essential for every woman."
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"We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family."
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