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Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.
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Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, Seats of the gods in the limitless ether, Looming sublimely aloft and afar.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
The Wit and Wisdom of Rock and Roll, ed. Maxim Jabukowski (1983) -
Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.
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Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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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.
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Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
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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) -
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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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.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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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 -
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.
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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.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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