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All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
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Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human… — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
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I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm.… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Black people ALL are fightin' you all for freedom, justice and equality. One believes that intermarriage is gonna solve it, and 200… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
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White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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