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Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these… — Taylor Dane
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by… — August Wilson
Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black… — Jackie Robinson
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a… — Burl Ives
If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a… — Satchel Paige
The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous… — Ansel Adams
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits… — Shirley Chisholm
The Constitution they wrote was designed to protect the rights of white, male citizens. As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding… — Shirley Chisholm
I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black. — Shirley Chisholm
When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of… — Shirley Chisholm
Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black. — Shirley Chisholm
I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of… — Shirley Chisholm
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… — Ishmael Reed
It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have… — Julian Barnes
There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it. — Georgia O'Keeffe
A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of. — Michael Bolton
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself. — Michael Bolton
In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the… — Terry Pratchett
I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine. — Horace
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, — Ida B. Wells
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s. — Amy Winehouse
There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. — Mark Rothko

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