Quotes with black

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  • Carol Moseley Braun Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bill Dedman In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Audre Lorde In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bell Hooks In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Condon In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Bill Skarsgard In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.
    Bill Skarsgard
    Swedish actor (1990 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield In my opinion, parsons are very like other men, neither the better nor the worse for wearing a black gown.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bell Hooks In this culture, the phrase 'black woman' is not synonymous with 'tender,' or 'gentle.' It's as if those words couldn't possibly speak to the reality of black females.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • William Congreve Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Bob Geldof Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Malcolm X It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bell Hooks It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Bill Cosby It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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