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• Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

  Huey Newton

  Destiny, Giving, People

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• It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won’t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it’ll put you to sleep.

  Malcolm X

  Strong, Coffee, Sleep

  Malcolm X's Speech at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference in Detroit, Michigan, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.

  Morgan Freeman

  Struggle, Men, White Man

  "Freeman calls Black History Month ‘ridiculous’". www.today.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cocky, Greatness, Names

  Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  Vernon Jordan

  People, Black People, Terrorism

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• I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

  June Jordan

  Life, Happiness, Success

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Men, White Man

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 14, 2012

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• I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Violence

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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• From the beginning, it has been a no-no for a black man to touch a white woman.

  Nina Simone

  Men, White, Racism

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• I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Memories, Pride, Race

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• When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

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• Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

  August Wilson

  Experience, Custodians, Situation

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• I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Music, God

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• Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, School, Cities

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.258, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  B. B. King

  Music, Workout, Rays

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, People, Black History

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

  Steven Biko

  Positive, Attitude, Long

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• Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

  June Jordan

  Who I Am, America, Soul

  1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

  Morgan Freeman

  Black History, Months, Black Racism

  "Roundtable: NSA, Freeman on Black History Month". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 19, 2005.

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• As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Loneliness, Book

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.393, Modern Library

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• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, Freedom

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Eye, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.153, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Black History, African American

  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ch. 10 (1845)

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• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  Kanye West

  Song, White, Looting

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