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“I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.”

Ifs Two Black Terrible Bars Fantastic If I Could Chocolate Marshmallow Caramel Love Chocolates

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.”

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Author:Archie Shepp

“If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal consumers of Viagra were poor young black men, then...selling Viagra would get you five to 10 years behind bars.”

Ifs Men Young Black White Behinds Land Bars Users Principal White Man Cocaine Affluent Smokers Viagra

Author:Ethan Nadelmann

“When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.”

Thinking Use Shows Black Television Bars Cosby Show

Author:Wendy Raquel Robinson

“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”

Country Whole Dream Night Black Sea Gold Bars Handle Smoke Riding Bicycle Drifting Swans Holland Canals Gilded

Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the door open for me. I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down: because I knocked all of them down.”

Way Firsts Wells Black Doors Economics Bars Black Women Pioneers Pennsylvania Phds

Author:Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

“When you go to a bar that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.”

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Author:Mitch Hedberg