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Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America. Ruby Dee

Women Black Men Everyday Our Struggles Know Historical America

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there. Sarah Jessica Parker

Home You Son Remember Walk Black Fragrance Having Hospital Had Remember When Takes Like Smells Still Came Rodriguez After Wore Then Created Coat Using Right

Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. Saul Williams

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start. Shirley Chisholm

Time Woman Seriously Will Black Hopeless Country Odds Group Believe Presidency Despite Ran Status Status Quo Runs Highest He Taken He Or She She Accept Sheer Ready Demonstrate Office Refusal Anyone Quo Elect Next Next Time Start Jew

I wouldn't mind, if Peter Parker had originally been black, a Latino, an Indian, or anything else, that he stay that way. But we originally made him white. I don't see any reason to change that. Stan Lee

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. Stokely Carmichael

God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them - the flag of the cross. Tony Evans

God Cause Black Made Lose White Backgrounds Flying Sight Citizens Would Some Kingdom Cross Individual Never Red Over His Yellow Up Flag Intention Spanish Them Uniqueness

The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man. Toussaint Louverture

Myself Man Black Revolution Saw Divided Could Taking Course Because Saint Were Endure Whites Numbers

I've heard people say, 'Why do you have to do a show that's called 'Black Girls Rock'?' or 'Why is there an expression called 'black girl magic'?' You know, when you say, 'Save the dolphins,' you don't mean, 'I don't like whales.' That's just not the way it works! Tracee Ellis Ross

In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. Verne Troyer

Character Black Men Pun Small Very Intended

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? W. E. B. Du Bois

Motivational Great Strange Strong Black Men Face Be Strong Energy Heritage Dim Those Brothers Thyself Know Know Thyself Well How Wagon Hitch America Die Often Human Them Your Yours Star Away Belong Millions

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. W. E. B. Du Bois

Government Day Equality Black Men Half Nation Birth Those More Voices New Powers Anomaly Sought Within Said Sound Governed Than Which Forming Derive Who Asserted Population Lived Nearly Million Consent Slavery Slaves

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today War Man Problem Black Nation Before Those Degraded Civil Civil War Similar Colonial Colored Imperialism Had Cheap Raw Raw Material Like Souls Built Material South Tragedy Labor Greek America After Central Used Manufacture Whom Oligarchy Million Four Raising

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. William Golding

Humanity Black Miracles Bit Possibility Find Religious Inside Black Hole Seldom Outside Since Most Scientific Scientists His Intellect Just Hole While Them Wholly Believes Position

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports. Wladimir Klitschko

Politics Food You Sports Black Poison Other Rules Definitely Eye Only No Rules Tougher Head Boxing Bullet Than Get The Only Thing Your Comparable Thing Basically

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. bell hooks

Women People Focus Black Men White Group Other Out About Tends Had Identity Talked Existence Women Are America White Women Socialized

I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, 'Can you get this in my size?' What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off. bell hooks

Service You Woman Will Black White Say Some Sees Purse She Off Get Goes Size Standing Coat Her Button

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