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They're not seeing the misery in their own families every day. We hide the poor in segregated neighborhoods, so it's easy to lose sight when you're zipping on the expressway every day to your job, then zipping back to the suburbs at night. You're seeing them at reunion time or when somebody calls up for some help. But now it's been made graphic to them. A lot of black people saw black poor people on television like everybody else.
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There's been an extraordinary expansion of the black middle class and a shift in the locus of leadership. A more diversified black community doesn't find it necessary to have one voice. Michael Dyson
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There's been a black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years. Franklin Graham
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If you read my sixth-grade report card, you'd notice that I started with unsatisfactory grades. My teacher sent a note home to my mother that said I was a 'good boy' but I 'needed to be watched.' She put a 'body' on me. Our children are trying to tell us something. They are trying to tell the black mayors, school superintendents, teachers - all of us, that they need a whole lot of bodies on them. Bill Cosby
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If you look at the first list and compare it to the second list, you'll see that the black coaching candidates were at least as strong, if not stronger, than those who were selected.
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If you look at my BlackBerry there's been no less than three law firms and 100 e-mails coming through since Friday. Gary Williams
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If you look at most of the communities where poverty exists, it's predominantly black. It's not happening in Hyde Park. It's happening in predominantly black neighborhoods. What else would you expect to see other than black-on-black crimes? Tom Jones
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If you look at 1916 to 1948, blacks are moving. That's the heyday of jazz in terms of popular culture.
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If you have two 15-year-olds, and one is a black male, and one is a white female, some people have a very different posture of the power between the two than if it's the other way around.
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In those days, four black kids might start, but a white kid always started at point guard. In those days, the point guard was thought of as the intelligent position, just like quarterback in football.
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In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color. Ralph Gibson
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Instead of sitting in a classroom here on this very elite campus and talking about liberation and anti-colonial and anti-empire theology and black theology and feminist theology, let's give students the opportunity to be in a place where those issues are the daily life of the people. So now they're not just studying about these people. They're studying with them.
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In my opinion, the next council member should be Fran Black Holland. She had the next-highest votes. She worked hard in her campaign. She deserves it. The voters have chosen. How can the Kannapolis City Council deny her?
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In Okmulgee we have a unique opportunity with this hospital to tell the story of the black medical practitioners in Oklahoma.
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I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop under his arm. And as I passed him, he turned his body, twisted his body, and touched me with the mop handle. Now this delivered a message and the message was clear: We are looking after you while you are here, James Meredith
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I like to see something like this in my neighborhood . . . to see that they haven't forgotten about the black community, Ron Shelton
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I really like all the neutral colors and natural materials designers are using, especially the linens and burlap. White has been such a big story this season and gray is, as well. After a fall season with so much black in it, it's really no surprise that in the new spring season gray is the new black. Glenda Bailey
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I provided an extensive declaration to the District Court as to the harm which would occur to our health care enterprises if BlackBerry service was eliminated.
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In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the father she has never known.
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In the past 10 years I have recorded 50 rape cases involving black lesbians in townships. Zanele Muholi
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If you want to see real shortages and a black market, then put price controls back on, Joe Barton
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In order to get large numbers of blacks back into New Orleans would require huge amounts of money.
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In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling. David Oyelowo
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I guess you could say she's the 'blackest' white woman in the world. She carried herself as a black woman.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. Carlisle Floyd
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. Buchi Emecheta
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The last thing I want to be is a rich black superstar. I just want to act. James Earl Jones
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The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded. Janelle Monae
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I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes. Janelle Monae
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For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal. Ernest Cline
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She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss. Cassandra Clare
black-and-white culture narrative
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. Caroline Knapp
black singers matter
It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black. Carly Simon