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Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a… — Hayden Fry
They said that I had sold out and (am an) Uncle Tom. And I said well, they deserve to have that view. But I have… — J C Watts
It's often said that the Democrats fight 'for the little guy.' That's true: liberals fight to make sure the little guy stays little! Think about… — Angela McGlowan
We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on… — Walter E. Williams
We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution. — Ken Blackwell
Here's Williams' roadmap out of poverty: Complete high school; get a job, any kind of a job; get married before having children; and be a… — Walter E. Williams
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in… — Richard Allen
Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides… — James Forten
The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you… — Jesse Jackson
I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. — John Lewis
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin. — Whitney M. Young
Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers… — Will Smith
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people. — Tina Turner
I've never bothered about my color. — Tina Turner
I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of… — Halle Berry
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African. — Paul Robeson
People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female. — Aaliyah
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. — Zora Neale Hurston
The outside world told black kids when I was growing up that we weren't worth anything. But our parents said it wasn't so, and our… — Marian Wright Edelman
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are… — Langston Hughes
Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud. — Langston Hughes
Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. — Mary McLeod Bethune
Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport… — Bruce McCall

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