Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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.. The electoral franchise has been conferred upon the Negroes in almost all the states in which slavery has been abolished, but if they come forward to vote, their lives are in danger.. The same schools do not receive the children of the black and of the European. In the theaters gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters in the hospitals they lie apart.. Not only is slavery prohibited in Ohio, but no free Negroes are allowed to enter the territory of that state or to hold property in it.
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History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible destroy their family and work ethic.
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
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Fame, if not double faced, is double mouthed, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds: On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.
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Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,.. Silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky.
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
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There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work us harm
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For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.
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You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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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.
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. After them.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
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Nigel It's like, how much more black could this be and the answer is none. None more black.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
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Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker.. If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
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I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth.
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
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I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.
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The pot calls the kettle black.
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Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.
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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
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