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"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration."
"I made my way on to a grey list, a black list even. That's something I'm very proud of, actually."
"Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one."
"Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another."
"I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing."
"Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate."
"I'm playing dark history. It's beyond black. I'm dealing with the dark things of the cosmos."
"Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along."
"The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide."
"Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."
"Out of the blue and into the black"
"I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug."
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."
"Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large."
"The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first."
"Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres."
"There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants."
"There ain't nothin' like a Black woman."
"I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do."
"I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa."
