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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Jean Paul

Black Our Distance Scarcely Over Heads Like Look Sorrows Gray

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. Richard M. Nixon

Great Black Face Matters White Great City City See He Polish None Italian Mexican Child American Lives

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Steven Biko

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life. Steven Biko

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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. Steven Biko

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff. Steven Wright

Black Out Stuff Make Box Plane Whole Why

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons. Toni Morrison

People Black Understanding Everybody Else Totally About Bear Brunt Annoyed Contempt Smiling Always Demons Suddenly Why

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed. Barack Obama

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As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. Angela Davis

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Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women. Ann Richards

Women Matter Black Country Believe Else Neighborhood Out Small Disabled Small Town Fair Town Come Fair Play Democrats Still Hispanic America Same Anyone Anyone Else Whether Poor Now Play Chance

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan

Equality Black Power Call Brain Brain Power Green

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. Dick Gregory

Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. Jack Antonoff

Strange Black Black And White White Color Never Creates

Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people. Karyn Parsons

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon

Life Truth Conflict People Darkness Light Black Black And White Opposites White Relation Our Pungent Intoxicating Clash Only Terms Make Exist Error Where Which Meaningful Zone

If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun. Malcolm X

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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve. Malcolm X

Man Hate People Black White Nerve Fingers Dripping Takes Know Him Audacity How His Lot Off Blood Want Asking

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman

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I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America. Shirley Chisholm

Me History Change Woman Remember Black Made First Presidency Herself States Dared Remember Me Catalyst Remembered Bid America Want Century Who Lived United United States

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. Toni Morrison

You Black White Everything Out Find Minute About Something No-One Talks Revelation Were Happens Moment Found Ever Profound

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man. Toussaint Louverture

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Barack Obama

While Donald Trump is busy insulting one group after another, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths. Yes. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian-American, Native American - when all of us stand together. Bernie Sanders

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