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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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Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

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Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

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

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The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

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Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

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Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

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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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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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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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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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Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a little cap that they wear.

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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.

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If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

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When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

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They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.

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Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black.

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