"I love going shopping. I have a black belt in it."
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"As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does"
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"The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have conserved their racial purity by a lack of affinity with washing, have seen their patch invaded by a different kind of slave: The Portuguese. the black is indolent and fanciful, he spends his money on frivolity and drink; the European comes from a tradition of working and saving which follows him to this corner of America and drives him to get ahead."
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"The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black."
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"Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone."
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"Because when you unite, that is the power of God, you know. God love Love, which is unity. So when you unite, you get the whole power of God. That's what him want. Until Black people unite...if the Black people don't unite, the world, no one, no one can live good."
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"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."
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"When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life."
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"There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'."
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"To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black."
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"Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective."
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"As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general."
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"Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom."
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"First black president ever, and to be living while it happened - that's a good part of history. That's probably the biggest person I admire right now."
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"[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing."
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"Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail."
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"I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die."
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"Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man."
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"Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?"
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"Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category."
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