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  • Maya Angelou Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Toni Morrison Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Steven Wright Black holes are where God divided by zero.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Brunello Cucinelli Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • William S. Burroughs Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Huey Newton Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
    Revolutionary Suicide (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Assata Shakur Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Audre Lorde Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Smith Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Toni Morrison Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Audre Lorde Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Smith Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • August Wilson Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Alfred Jarry Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • Butch Trucks Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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