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I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary. Issa Rae
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Let's call it a black eye. Black eyes look ugly for a bit, but they go away. Hopefully, a few lessons will have been learned. Victor Flores
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Many people, blacks as well as whites, have some trouble having the story of slavery told in a major public venue, ... But we do not have the right not to tell the story. James Oliver
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Many times they would lynch someone by a railroad track so that passing trains would see and pass the word on and also as a form of intimidation to people in surrounding black community. James Allen
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Many times, black businesses are under-utilized or overlooked. O. Winston
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Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system. Patricia Harris
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Security is a frustrating business. And the hardest thing to do is stop an internal black hat. The risk can't ever totally be eliminated -- it can only be minimized. Curtis Preston
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Mr. Johnson changed the color of American media. Before Ebony, before Mr. Johnson, blacks were not seen in major media in this country. They were not pictured on the front pages; there were no black models, he created that foundation which is reverberating throughout the media today, Lerone Bennett
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Much of it is established by social and economic order, ... But on those levels, both black and white speakers share a close accent. David Barry
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On inflation, the president took note: things are bad. Mikhail Fradkov
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Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man. Thomas Friedman
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President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out. Dee Dee Myers
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I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one. Dikembe Mutombo
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators. Eleanor Clift
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The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm. Eliot Spitzer
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. Elena Kagan
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. Abdul Kalam
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I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to. Abraham Lincoln
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To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself. Elbert Hubbard
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I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation. Abraham Lincoln
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An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. Abraham Lincoln
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You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it. Abraham Lincoln
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We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong. Abraham Lincoln
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In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain. Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. Caleb Cushing
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Freedom without structure is its own slavery. David Brooks
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine. Beau Willimon