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“In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.”

Should Mind Made Play Moments Black Roles Five Comedy College Six Mercy Males That Moment Should I Rejected Pompous Turtlenecks Yay

Author:Emo Philips

“I say if black people don't unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people. Nobody's going to have any mercy. And nobody's going to have any compunction about making slaves out of them.”

People Ifs Wells Might Black Community Support Mercy Slave Black People Compunction

Author:John Henrik Clarke

“The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.”

Heart Black Lord Doors Mercy Horse Affliction

Book:Collected Works Vol. 1

Source: Collected Works Vol. 1

“...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.”

Source: The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois

“This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows before it yields its deluge of mercy. Depression has now become to me as a prophet in rough clothing, a John the Baptist, heralding the nearer coming of my Lord's richer benison”

Black Lord Break Blessing Mercy Clouds Prophet Rough Yield Clothings Ministry Preparing Baptists Deluge John The Baptist

Book:Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

Source: Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon

“We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!”

Way Littles Lost Black Poor Gone Losing Mercy Eternity Gentleman Sheep Lambs Black Sheep

Author:Rudyard Kipling