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If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices.

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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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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

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All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me.

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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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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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I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

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The devil is not as black as he is painted.

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Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.

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Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

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My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

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

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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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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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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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Who would have thought when they came to the fight? That they'd witness the launching of a human satellite.

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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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If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

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I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

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