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“Ex-slaves, in large part, shared a different economic vision. They were "always on the move," searching for family, denying their labor to "dishonest or oppressive employers," and asserting their i...”
“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermin...”
“But lets not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the...”
“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
“Though I'm not sure, I thought I saw women dressed in black, with her head and face covered by a black veil, duck behind a tree as we approached the road and parked car. Hiding so we wouldn't see h...”
“She may be dressed in black from head to toe, but she is still the brightest thing in my universe.”
“Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.”
“A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.”
“Black as the night.Black as the depths.Black as your heart.Where your hatred's at rest.”
“Even when your life is full of color, you still need to be reminded that things come in black and white.”
“I see black light (his last words)”
“I don't stand for black man's side, I don't stand for white man's side, I stand for God's side.”
“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”
“If a Black mother says she had a dream, listen. They are psychic.”
“Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldnt lean against Black. . . .”
“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Bl...”
“I don't trust the everyday: it is a mask, a sham. It gives the illusion of permanence, of an unshatterable calm, a placid surface; and yet underneath the pot is slowly coming to a boil.”
“Let my toes teach the shore how to feel a tranquil lifethrough the wetness of sands Let my heart latch the doorof blackness, as all my pain now blue sky understands”
“As a black woman interested in feminist movement, I am often asked whether being black is more important than being a woman; whether feminist struggle to end sexist oppression is more important tha...”
“Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?”
