Quotes 601 till 620 of 661.
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We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.
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Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.
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What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison -
When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 80 -
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
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When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
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When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'
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When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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