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“The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.”

“There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.”

People Made Black Growth Poor Blood Capitalism Paid Fortune Enormous Indian Black People Poor People Frontiers

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?”

Use Black Blood Poet Red Lust Colour Wheelbarrows

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why

“Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.”

“When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?”

Men Black Blood Mortals Fallen Spells Back Again

Book:Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”

Men Black White Pay Race Blood Dog Gold

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake”

Black Blood Land Grew Rain Good Things Colour Wicked Cake Harvest Icing

Author:Andy Partridge

“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”

Men Soul Body Causes Black Progress Written Blood Men And Women Instance

Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. Come, mourn with me for what I do lament, And put sullen black incontinent. I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land To wash this blood off from my guilty hand. March sadly after. Grace my mournings here In weeping after this untimely bier.”

Source: Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“Fresh blood at midnight isn't red. It's a purplish black that easily blends into the shadows.”

Black Blood Shadow Red Midnight

Book:Midnight's Daughter

Source: Midnight's Daughter

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.”

Looks Shows Light Black Blood Red Skins Blue Green Plant Mercury

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood at all, but for some reason, as a child, the movie, The Last Emperor, had a serious affect on me. I can't understand why. But there's something that the movie did to me.”

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Author:Tyra Banks