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“You should be allowed to rub out and start again, it means that you are human. The purists are tedious, they tell you a mistake is like an enduring black mark. Nonsense -- better to be human than some infernal machine never going wrong.”

Should Humans Mean Black Mistake Machines Mark Endure Nonsense Tedious

Book:The pillow book

Source: The pillow book

“We have a tendency in this country that when we say Black it automatically means Black Americans. But that's a big mistake, and that keeps us divided. There are Blacks all over this entire world-even in Africa.”

World Mean Country Bigs Black Mistake Tendencies Divided Big Mistake

Author:Irene Cara

“Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.”

Wells Littles I Can Play Bigs Sports Black Numbers Mistake Hell Fronts Theater Instruments Athlete Horrible Tunes Apollo Buckets Harlem Nightclubs Horrible Mistakes

Author:Jesse Owens

“It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.”

Ifs America Black White Mistake Destiny Sick Meaningful Repeats Meaningful Life Black America Sick Society

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.”

Persons Made Use Bigs Black Race Mistake Circumstances Racism Europe Chinese Big Mistake Black Person

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“It's not anything that is just perpetuated by White America or just perpetuated by Black America. It's just a cultural understanding that you're just not a part of the equation when it comes to sexuality and I think that people mistake your lack of opportunity with the level of your talent.”

People Thinking America Opportunity Understanding Black White Levels Mistake Talent Sexuality Equations Black America

Author:Viola Davis

“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.”

Knows Made Evil Black White Mistake Moral Know How Regimes Black And White Saddam Hussein Made A Mistake Leftists Absolutism Moral Absolutism

Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.”

Ends Earth Faces Black Mistake Machines Wipe Epoch

Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover