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• Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

  Louis Aragon

  Meaningful, Black And White, Errors

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• Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Baby, Race, Revolution

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  It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Equality, Rights

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

  Lisa Ling

  Black And White, Media, Cnn

  "Lisa Ling On Tackling Tough Topics". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

  Derrick Bell

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

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• White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

  Jack London

  Strong, Law, Weak

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.147, Wordsworth Editions

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• So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's not black progress. That's white progress.

  Chris Rock

  Black, Progress, President

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• It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!

  Barack Obama

  Running, Years, Greed

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.293, Canongate Books

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• Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps.

  Honore de Balzac

  Doubt, Steps, Trembling

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• I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  People, Snow, Notion

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• In the beginning it was all black and white.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Black And White, All Black, Black White

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• ...everything looks worse in black and white.

  Paul Simon

  Photography, Black And White, Looks

  Song: Kodachrome

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• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

  E. B. White

  Men, Farming, Farmers

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press

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• If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

  Chester Himes

  Life, Country, Racism

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• Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Race, Black

  Mark Twain (1809). “The Writings of Mark Twain: Following the equator; a journey around the world”, p.63

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• Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.

  John D. MacDonald

  War, Differences, Skin Color

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• Want to shut a racist white guy's mouth. Put him around Super human athletic black dudes.

  Godfrey

  Racism, Guy, Athletic

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• It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

  Frederick Douglass

  Light, Black, Printing

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• That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Daisies

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1879). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: To which are Appended Poems Attributed to Chaucer”

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• I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Tennis, House, Get Better

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Class

  "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

  Pico Iyer

  Black And White, Years, Two Year Olds

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?

  Daphne Oz

  Girlfriend, Waiting, Twenties

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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