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Randall Kennedy has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Language of the Gun shows why Bernard Harcourt has earned a reputation as one of our most provocative and informative analysts of…
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I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but…
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The perception of linked fate and that feeling of being always on the spot as a representative of the race, at least…
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I champion sensibly designed racial affirmative action, not because I have benefited from it personally - though I have. I support it…
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He…
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the…
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other…
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Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
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In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the…
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab…
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and…
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all…
— Steven Biko
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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across…
— Robin Williams
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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there…
— Winston Churchill
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Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful…
— Louis Untermeyer
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk…
— Halle Berry
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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result…
— Audre Lorde
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It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
— Charles Duke
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I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer,…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.
— Michelle Obama
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away,…
— Sara Gruen
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