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I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general. Leah Ward Sears
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None of us is responsible for the... Marian Anderson
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I was born black and female. Lorraine Hansberry
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As busy as I am wherever I am, I... Chris Gardner
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Everybody knows this legend in kind of African-American lore. There's always somebody in your neighborhood named Orangejello or Lemonjello. And that's spelled - Orangejello is spelled O-R-A-N-G-E-J-E-L-L-O. Jordan Peele
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The leader of Jar Jar's tribe is a fat, bumbling buffoon with a rumbling voice, and he seems to be a caricature of a stereotypical African tribal chieftain. Michael Dyson
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The literary community is very rich. The Haitian culture stands out as unique, especially the literature. The Creole language also lends a flavor all its own, even in English, and the African tradition gives the literature a lot of folk tales and proverbs. David Brown
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The list of detained journalists is getting longer. The Gambian government does what it likes, without any pretense of legality. How far will it be able to go before it has to face a real protest from the member states of the African Union, whose next summit Gambia is supposed to host?
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An African woman carries heavy loads anyway. That's how we are trained; we are brought up that nothing is unbearable. I use that now, positively. I use that now to have the thick skin that I have, and not fear, and move forward, and push; and push forward. Joyce Banda
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All that that they were able to say was that the district attorney removed three African American jurors,
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All of the songs have African rhythms and movement. The kids were dancing. Our second grade choir was used for singing as they played the instruments. It sounded really cool.
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I have always respected everyone's... Hazel Scott
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We had two African American writers [Eric Monte and Michael Evans] on the show ['Good Times'] that knew Cabrini Green inside and out, and that's why we set it there. Norman Lear
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The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. Mary Landrieu
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the... Malcolm X
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
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While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice. Harvey Fierstein
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The close proximity between people and animals and insufficient surveillance and disease control capability in eastern African countries create an ideal breeding ground for the virus,
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The first thing that comes to mind is that these are African Americans and how will they be treated. Will there be graciousness?
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The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gesture of courtesy with Chad rather than an objective move.
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The commission, meeting in Botswana last week (October 10 to 14) was examining the security situation in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region with particular emphasis on developments in Angola and the DRC,
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Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture Mark Steyn
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I'm an American. I'm not an African-American; I'm an American. Raven-Symone
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I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand. Sister Souljah
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That's how we do it in the black... Snoop Dogg
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Since the nation's founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die, but then are reborn in new form, tailored to the needs and constraints of the time. Michelle Alexander
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It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites. Michael Emerson
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote. Rand Paul
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them. Jessica Williams
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Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music. Johnny Otis
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When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African-American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.
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Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans. Niger Innis
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The Habre case is more worrying for African leaders as it is more universal in its implications. They will find it a very difficult decision.