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- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked…
- The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
- For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he…
- The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
- I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
- I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother…
- Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just…
- Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever I…
- I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I…
- We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American…
- The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around…
- The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they didn't…
- A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach…
- There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down…
- Shakespeare must be a black girl.
- The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the…
- Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black…
- Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and…
- I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.
- If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat.…
- There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead…
- If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to…
- Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope…
- Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your…
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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