Charlamagne Tha God (Lenard Larry McKelvey) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		We as black have to remind ourselves that we are a great people and we come from a great lineage. How can we say that we were Kings and Queens during ancient civilization but then turn around and say, 'we don't have privilege.' Who said that? What is that based on? Is that based on the white man's definition of privilege and what this system is showing us? Yes, of course.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Demick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Antonoff 
			 
			
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		One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabourey Sidibe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sabine Baring-Gould 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like Comic-Con - and there are always a lot of attendants of color. And I think some people believe that black people or people of color are not into science fiction or hero shows or genre shows. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. August Richards 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no white comic that sells tickets to black people like me. They're going to get their hair done, get a new outfit, and come out to see a white dude. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Owen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L. Ron Hubbard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cab Calloway 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. E. B. Du Bois