Quotes 241 till 260 of 302.
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There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
Speech DNC, 2004 -
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.
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There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963) -
They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
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They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
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This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
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This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
Middle of the World (1929) -
Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
Ending Racism Killing Rage -
To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
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Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
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Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
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Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
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Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women.... they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.
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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments.
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