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You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty… — Bill Gates
I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out,… — Unknown Author
I almost never draw a completely naked man. He has to have at least a pair of boots or something on. To me, a fully… — Tom of Finland
If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to… — Noel Ignatiev
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!'… — Claudia Black
I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at… — Viola Davis
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging… — Bayard Rustin
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey
There are no violent gangs fighting over aspirin territories. There are no violent gangs fighting over whisky territories or computer territories or anything else that's… — Harry Browne
I like the black and white movies on AMC. — Slick Rick
We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black… — June Jordan
Atheist Jews double crossers stole our [black people’s] secrets. . . . They give us to worship a dead Jew and not ourselves . . .… — Amiri Baraka
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through… — Octavia Butler
The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. — Jim DeRogatis
Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and… — Stephen Baxter
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, /May be refin'd and join th' angelic train. — Phillis Wheatley
Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and… — Lorraine Hansberry
It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson
Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. — Federico Garcia Lorca
Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a… — Dennis Rodman
Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my… — Dennis Rodman
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. — David Dinkins
A bleak, black book, it engenders awe and despair. I have read it in its entirety 4 1/2 times, each time finding its resonance and… — Michael Silverblatt
I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to… — Barack Obama
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over… — Wendell Willkie

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