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“Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.”

“The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.”

Black Lows Bird West All Time Crow Nile All Time Low

Author:Jeff Chapman

“Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.”

People Men World Wells Turns Black Leader Blessing Men And Women West South East Chosen Conquest East And West North And South Blessing You

Author:Marcus Garvey

“Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm, look for me all around you, for, with God's grace, I shall come and bring with me countless millions of black slaves who have died in America and the West Indies and the millions in Africa to aid you in the fight for Liberty, Freedom and Life.”

Looks America Fighting Black Liberty Millions Grace Died Slave West Storm Aids God's Grace Whirlwind West Indies

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”

“Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.”

Years Able Faces Black White Cities Seeing Percent West East Contact Black And White Coast Aboriginal West Coast East Coast

Author:Phillip Noyce

“Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in order to tell a vast story of a people's reinvention of itself and of a nation-the first complete history of the Great Black Migration from start to finish, north, east, west.”

People Firsts Stories Order Nations Social Black Sun West East Warmth Biographies Masterpiece Migration Iconic Social Science Reinvention North East

Author:David Levering Lewis

“We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.”

Black Groups Identity Praise West Black Women

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“I'm just as white as I am black, and I'm just as Russian Jew as I am West Indian.”

Black White West Jew Indian

Author:Lenny Kravitz