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“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”

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Author:Lewis Nkosi

“I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.”

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Author:Stephen L. Carter

“There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.”

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Book:Loyalties: A Son's Memoir

Source: Loyalties: A Son's Memoir

“There's not too many rich black people in this world.”

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Author:Barry Bonds

“I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.”

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Author:Brenda Fassie

“Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.”

People Black Credit Black People Obsolete

Author:Whitney Cummings

“Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.”

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Author:Nicole Beharie

“It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?”

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Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I have the utmost respect and aloha for black people who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.”

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Author:Duane Chapman

“I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.”

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Author:Duane Chapman

“Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.”

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Author:Johnnie Cochran

“Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.”

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Author:Katherine Dunham

“Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.”

People Different Black Color Realms Black People Exterior

Author:Marla Gibbs

“Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.”

People Men Should States Black White United United States Black People White Man

Author:Bobby Fischer

“I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.”

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Author:Curt Flood

“I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.”

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Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson