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“When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.”

Feels Christian Black White Lord Comfortable Christian Inspirational Dirty Gray Sheep All Black Black Sheep

Author:Vance Havner

“Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No; but they are now wasting away the black race by thousands.... Treat the slaves kindly and let them live, for Ham must be the servant of servants until the curse is removed. Can you destroy the decrees of the Almighty? You cannot. Yet our Christian brethren think that they are going to overthrow the sentence of the Almighty upon the seed of Ham. They cannot do that, though they may kill them by thousands and tens of thousands.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.”

“An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.”

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Author:Pandurang Shastri Athavale

“The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.”

Book God Earth Given Heaven Black Lord Red Thanks

Book:The Collected Poems

Source: The Collected Poems

“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.”

Trying Remember Black Attention Lord Feet Six Female Tall Remember Me Describe Myself

Author:Maya Angelou

“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)

“Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features”

Giving God Black Dark Lord Fashion Features Daring Black Power

Book:Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)

“Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species.”

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Author:Robin Williams

“What is superstition , but misguided, unobjective science? And when it comes down to that, is it to be wondered if people grasp at superstition in this rotten, hate-filled, half-doomed world of today? Lord knows, I'd welcome the blackest of black magic, if it could do anything to stave off the atom bomb.”

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Book:Conjure Wife

Source: Conjure Wife

“I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.”

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Author:Rand Paul