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All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to my success because when I meet people, I see a piece of myself in them. And maybe they see a piece of themselves in me.

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Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

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I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

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Black Power If the motive is good, and there are no other possibilities, then seen most deeply it [violence] is nonviolence, because its aim is to help others.

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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

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No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.

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There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.

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Black churches minister to social needs out of necessity.

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When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

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People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.

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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

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At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

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PimpCo is a little business I've got, which basically offers drummers the affordable opportunity to make their drums that little bit more bespoke. I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service - the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

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Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the churches and maintain the pulpits.

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I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

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