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- America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live…
- There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the…
- I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so…
- In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of…
- In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.
- It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.
- One must learn how to be black in America.
- One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and…
- 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…
- What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he…
- The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
- In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints…
- In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
- Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.
- First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that…
- The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard…
- I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.
- I'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black?
- In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
- My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
- But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's…
- I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was…
- It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension…
- No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco…
- Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa