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

  Paula Patton

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  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

• 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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• 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

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

  John Sexton

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  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

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Good, Black, Converse, Dirt

• 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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  Tags in Black, Personal, Style

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

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Black, Thing

• One must learn how to be black in America.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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  Tags in Learn, Black