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I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more. Lisa Lampanelli

Reputation Ruin Blacks More Gonna

I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else. Magic Johnson

When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time. Maidie Norman

Time Myself Opportunities Thought Young Dramatic Would Would-Be Blacks Rather Leading Attractive Course Always Were Lady Actress

It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. Maureen Dowd

Strange Women White White House Latinos Carried Jobs Obama Blacks Give Cabinet Term House Dudes Passing Chooses Away Second Second Term

I am not naive, and I do realize that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. I am also fully aware that when segregation ended, we didn't all live happily ever after. No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal. Maysoon Zayid

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Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. Melvin Van Peebles

About Blacks Knowing Without Offending Offends Uptight Really

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites. Michael Eric Dyson

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The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on. Michael Huffington

Party Gays Out Blacks Reaching Lincoln Hispanics Forth Should

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents and grandparents. Blacks were shackled for the early part of that relay race, and although many of the fetters have come off, whites have developed a huge lead. Nicholas Kristof

Financial Parents Our Ancestors Relay Shackled Blacks Relying Lead Developed Part Come Although Were Off Huge Human Race Capital Grandparents Shoulders Stand Whites Many Early

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms. Niger Innis

War Freedom Rights Black States Penalties Liberties Possessing Secure Civil Civil Rights Blacks Civil War Restricted Laws Firearms Along Stiff Were Southern Southern States After Central Enforcement Whites Fought Codes

As a political weapon, it has helped me for 30 years defend the rights of American blacks and third-world people all over the world, to defend them with protest songs. To move the audience to make them conscious of what has been done to my people around the world. Nina Simone

Me Rights People World Political Has-Been Weapon Blacks Songs Over Make Protest Around Audience Been Years American Done Move Them Helped Conscious Defend

Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers. Penelope Spheeris

In East, South and Central Africa, the minority manipulated the majority into believing the minority was the majority, that there were more whites in the world than blacks; instilled in the blacks a sense of inferiority, inadequacy, worthlessness. Peter Abrahams

Inferiority World Minority Sense East Worthlessness Blacks More Instilled Majority Were South Than Africa Central Inadequacy Manipulated Whites Believing

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. Phillip Noyce

History Books Blacks Feature Winners Wrote Were Losers History Books Whites

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations. Placido Domingo

Natural Singing Satisfied Melting Constantly Blacks Charm Voice Could Colored Colors Never Had Mere Primary Combinations Subtly Again Bursting Realized Then Less Paint Expressing

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman. Randall Kennedy

Woman Sometimes White Assumption Married Would Would-Be Blacks Primarily Almost Institutions Wives Much Who Many Elite

We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands. Richard Lamm

Rights Problem World Minority Own Recognize Must Solution Solve Civil See Civil Rights Blacks Laws Hispanics Ultimately Hands Going Largely

All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals from hard-working, taxpaying whites and gives the spoils to indolent, grasping blacks. Rick Perlstein

Ideology Rage Liberalism Right-Wing Component Blacks Steals Gives Bears Spoils Because Understood America Racial Whites Grasping Hard-Working

We are viewed by the world as a quasi-racist state in which we allow natural disasters to obliterate our minority community, in which our penal system is designed to treat blacks unfairly, and in which we let the medical and educational systems in our ghettos fester to the level of some third-world countries. Rod Lurie

Natural World Treat Minority Natural Disasters Community State Our System Systems Some Blacks Obliterate Allow Countries Disasters Educational Fester Unfairly Which Viewed Medical Level Designed

I think that most of the young officers I know are leftists and liberals and Democrats. And the reason is this: All of our soldiers, the men that work for us directly, are minorities - blacks or Latinos. And we empathize with them. Our job is to advise them and help them. Rod Lurie

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around the black community and identify who the leaders were. Roger Wilkins

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