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• It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this… — Erykah Badu
• The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power… — James A. Baldwin
• But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley
• The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and… — Eden Ahbez
• It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey
• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. — H. Rap Brown
• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make… — H. Rap Brown
• In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country:… — H. Rap Brown
• It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense… — Stokely Carmichael
• I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
• One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization… — Stokely Carmichael

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