"It's time for Black people to stop playing……" — John Henrik Clarke

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• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd… — Hank Aaron
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• I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and… — Paul Auster
• My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing… — Teresa of Avila
• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the… — Dan Aykroyd
• It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this… — Erykah Badu
• Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
• The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
• Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
• The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power… — James A. Baldwin
• They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa

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