"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude."
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"I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier."
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"Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it's really cool."
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"I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice."
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"If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full."
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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"The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth."
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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."
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"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough."
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"Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me."
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"A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy."
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"Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride."
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"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
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"Healing begins where the wound was made."
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"Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish"
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"Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act."
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"Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat"
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"When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!"
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"Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval."
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"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."
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