No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
Henry Louis Gates
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The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.
Molly Ivins
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If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.
Clarence Thomas
MyselfBlackThinkDecisionsWant
Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
Scott Ritter
TechnologyScienceHatBlackMagic
I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.
John Malkovich
BluePeopleStartBlackYouPerson
It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
Kevin Eubanks
TimeManBlackNothingHardDefend
For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
Toni Morrison
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I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.
Derek Walcott
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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
Audre Lorde
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It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'
Joe Haldeman
MusicBlackAmericaWhiteDramaSay
Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.
Marla Gibbs
PeopleColorBlackNothingOutThan
Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets.
Steve Jurvetson
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It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed.
BlackLonelyYouLateIntellectual
I'm a big fan of 'Orphan Black,' and to be one of the original cast members is something that will always be dear to me.
Michael Mando
MeBlackWillAlwaysBigSomething
There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.
I AmPeopleBlackBecauseIdeaWho
I mess with white girls, Asian girls, Spanish girls, black girls, everything.
Ty Dolla Sign
BlackWhiteEverythingMessAsian
This is about black people selling out other black people.
John Mellencamp
PeopleBlackSellingOutAbout
You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.
Kevin Hart
GoodFocusPeopleTreatBlackJudge
Everybody who is anyone wanted to meet a real life gangster, and here's Joey Gallo hitting the scene. What more could you want with a gangster? He looked the part. They call it gangster chic. He dressed like the 'Reservoir Dogs' - black suit, white shirt, skinny black tie. You know, he had the whole look down. And the big shades, of course.
Tom Folsom
LifeGangsterBlackYouLookDown
As a child, I used to see legends holding the 'black lady' and would think that I would get it someday.
Dhanush
ChildBlackThinkLadyLegendsSee
You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.
Allen West
VoiceBlackThinkYouHouseNew
I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.
Jessica Williams
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It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.
Marley Dias
GirlPeopleBlackWeirdYouLook
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter
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