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If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. — Henry Hampton
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our… — Huey Newton
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white… — Huey Newton
The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more… — William Barclay
The rain drags Black Sun down, but the rain dried by White Moon. — Tite Kubo
Black Flag was formed in 1977. We first recorded in 1978. — Greg Ginn
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple… — Greg Ginn
People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the bands existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening.… — Greg Ginn
The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we… — Greg Ginn
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be… — Amilcar Cabral
I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing.… — Unknown Author
The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black. This is… — Solomon Asch
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. — Unknown Author
A little rain, a little blood. Black fingernails in August; and going berserk, going bananas. As if entrapped in a tropical heatwave, with dozens of… — Adam Zagajewski
All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called… — Robert Browning
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation… — Joseph Addison
Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms… — Unknown Author
Of the Black Prince [his son] at Crécy, 1345: Let the boy win his spurs. [Old English] Also say to them, that they suffre hym… — Edward III of England
Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge,… — Dante Alighieri
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. — Frederick Douglass
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered. — James Weldon Johnson
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does. — Audre Lorde
What's shaking, chiefy baby? — Thurgood Marshall
American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. — Toni Morrison
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find… — Jessye Norman

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