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(Harry Reid) was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as… — Harry Reid
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just… — Charles Barron
From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman. — Nina Simone
I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just… — Halle Berry
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… — Maya Angelou
When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight… — Halle Berry
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races… — Abraham Lincoln
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in… — Abraham Lincoln
A black man will be elected President of the United States. I'm sorry, that's in the year 10,000. — Chris Rock
What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder… — Jean Genet
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more interesting. Black and… — Terry Pratchett
If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning? — Herman Cain
(The mainstream media) are so vested in our first black president not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths… — Joe Walsh
Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North. — Andrew Johnson
The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black. — James A. Baldwin
I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election. — Barack Obama
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears. — Unknown Author
In America, black is a country. — Amiri Baraka
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the… — Chris Rock
It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with… — Charles E. Blake
The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and consequently destitute of… — Pliny the Elder
I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been… — Ernest Hemingway
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking… — Malcolm X
When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am… — Brittney Griner
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are… — Alfred Kinsey

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