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Blackness Quotes (page 17)

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. Henry Louis Gates
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there. Marcus Garvey
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat. Carlos Fuentes
Marilyn French quote: "When they kept you out it was because you were black; when..."
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress? Marilyn French
Morgan Freeman quote: "I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American..."
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman
Louis Farrakhan quote: "Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why..."
Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles? Louis Farrakhan
They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh. Mike Epps
David Duke quote: "The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in..."
The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites. David Duke
David Dinkins quote: "In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black..."
In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee. David Dinkins
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. Mos Def
I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent. Mos Def
In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites. Barbara Ehrenreich
I joke to people in the press that I realize I'm not black, I'm actually white. But I've got these roots in black American music. I love it. Glenn Hughes
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. Angela Davis
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. Angela Davis

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