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• There was absolutely no work for Latinos and blacks.

  Victor Argo

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Latinos, Black

• Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

  Steven Biko

  Topics in Attitude

  Tags in Black

• I’m black because that’s the way the world sees me.

  Paula Patton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, World

• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  Eddie Huang

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  Tags in Black, Culture

• I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors in the country. You know, that’s very insulting. I’m striving to be one of the best anchors in the country. Handcuff me like that. What you’re saying is, ‘You’re black. You should only expect to rise to the level of the best at being black.’

  Lester Holt

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  Tags in Black, Striving

• A lot of people don’t understand the Black Panthers Party’s relationship with white mother country radicals.

  Fred Hampton

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  Tags in Radicals, Black

• The movie ‘Black Cat,’ from 1934, is one of my favorite movies.

  Kirk Hammett

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  Tags in Favorite, Black

• As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a ‘good’ version of yourself. And then when you’re with your home girls, you’re saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you’re speaking the way that you’re comfortable with.

  Katori Hall

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  Tags in Black, Predominantly

• My name is Arsenio. That’s a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

  Arsenio Hall

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  Tags in Greek, Black

• In movies we tend make things black and white: you’re either this, or you’re that.

  Bill Skarsgard

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  Tags in Black, Either

• Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

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  Tags in Black, Group

• I’m sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

  Ishmael Reed

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Matter, Fact

• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don’t receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Black, Happens

• I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

  Gil Scott-Heron

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  Tags in Black, Students

• I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.

  Henry Rollins

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  Tags in Flag, Black

• I don’t understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

  Richard Rogers

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  Tags in Grey, Black

• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

  Burl Ives

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cool, Black, Long

• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

  John Sexton

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Black, Themselves

• I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.

  Steven Seagal

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  Tags in Black, Born, Detroit

• But, I understand that Black Comb and Whistler are supposed to be great for snowboarding. So I am looking forward to going there someday soon.

  Bridget Hall

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  Tags in Great, Forward, Black