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Black History Month is a great celebration for Black people everywhere. I just hope we get to the point as Black people that we celebrate… — Unknown Author
All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them. — Robert Johnson
If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past — John Hope Franklin
We're at 103,000 feet. Looking out over a very beautiful, beautiful world . . . a hostile sky. As you look up the sky looks… — Joseph Kittinger
Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write… — Natalie Goldberg
I was born black and female. — Lorraine Hansberry
Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy — Nikki Giovanni
Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first… — Charles Lamb
From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to… — Pablo Neruda
The Marines don't have any race problems. They treat everybody like they're black. — Daniel James, Jr.
Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often… — Plutarch
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is… — Nelson Mandela
White performances were always dull in comparison to the astonishing expressiveness of Black dancers. Behind the white person's inarticulate body were centuries of condemnation of… — Jamake Highwater
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an… — Unknown Author
The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes… — Wilbur Smith
I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a… — Paul Davies
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition… — Will Smith
A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor… — Wilbur Smith
To me, personally, it doesn't matter what color I am. Black or white, Asian or Hispanic, it doesn't matter to me as long as the… — Shani Davis
Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one. — Charles Evers
Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks… — Charles Evers
I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything. — Charles Evers

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