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The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Henry Louis Gates

Success Ending Opportunities Black

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

Dreams Women Opportunity Me Black

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

Claudia Rankine

Life Value Society Black Present

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Family Slavery Black Jim Crow State

Trump does magic. Maybe it will be black magic sometime, but he's an amazing phenomenon.

Robert J. Shiller

Amazing Black Magic Will Sometime

It's hard to describe one's own alchemy that makes one into a writer, but I definitely think American language is so interesting, and specifically Southern language and black Southern language; it's hard to separate Southern language from black language.

Black Think Language American Hard

The revolution breaks out; they form this group of swordsmen called the Black Legion. Alex Dumas is there at every moment, protecting the revolution and protecting France, and he rises to the equivalent of a four-star general.

Moment Revolution Black Group Out

I prefer to leave a little room in my bag to grab goodies when I'm travelling, but otherwise you need one good pair of shoes that can be worn day or night, a pair of black jeans, and a nice dress.

Good Shoes Day Dress Night Black

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

World Black White Two Divided Goats

I know I'm representing a group - black, Latin, whatever you want to put me with - and I want to show that they are beautiful the way they are. I think that's really important for our youth to see.

Beautiful Me Youth Black Think You

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Finance World Negative Strong Black

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Stephen Hawking

Black Glow Body Hot Difficult Low

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

Black And White Black White Boring

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

People Black Hell White Out Scare

The music played most around St. Louis was country-western and swing. Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of the country stuff on our predominantly black audience. After they laughed at me a few times, they began requesting the hillbilly stuff.

Music Me Curiosity Black Country

I come from a mixed background - my mom's black, my dad's white - and I traveled around the world.

Mom World Black Traveled White Come

All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.

Death Black Ahead Been Betrayed

I never saw a consistent through-line of employment for black actresses. I was like, 'How are they supporting themselves?'

Khandi Alexander

Black Never Employment Saw Like How

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

Today Black And White Black White

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Struggle Men Be Strong Strong Black

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

Racism Fight World Action Black

When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.

Men Writing Story Black Young First

I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization.

Man People Black Television Wonder

It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

Sterling K. Brown

Life Family Children Yourself Black

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