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• If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

  Brad Holland

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• There’s a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

  Brad Garrett

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• I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I’m still and quiet inside, I’ll begin. It’s very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

  Bobby McFerrin

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• I like edgy but classic looks – like Chanel mixed with Alexander McQueen. My personal style is edgier. My closet is just black, gray, and white. I’m more comfortable in darker colors and leather jackets.

  Ashley Benson

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• I love good old-fashioned black or white Converse. I have a few pairs. And they are all really dirty. I can’t have clean Converse – I go in the dirt and run around!

  Ashley Benson

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• I’m the black sheep.

  Sienna Miller

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• Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

  Steven Biko

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• There’s a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we’ve arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.

  Spike Lee

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• Black man, you are on your own.

  Steven Biko

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• People think I’m this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

  Spike Lee

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• I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

  Heath Ledger

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• I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

  Steve Chabot

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• All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

  Constance Baker Motley

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• That’s because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.

  Smokey Robinson

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• The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• One must learn how to be black in America.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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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.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• Our nation’s oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children – black children, in particular – in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

  Jonathan Kozol

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• The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

  Nelson Mandela

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