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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we…
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
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America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many…
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Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all…
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We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
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God doesn't make orange juice, God makes oranges.
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It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.
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Pictures can live in one's memory. That's why they are important.
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I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They…
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or…
— John Henrik Clarke
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His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we…
— Jesse Jackson
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I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs
— Kendrick Lamar
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America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in…
— Pat Buchanan
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Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,…
— William J. Clinton
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Black is not defined by the media: Tall T's, Saggy Pants, Icy Teeth or Style of Dance. Black is not defined by…
— Kamanda Ndama
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There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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