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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

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• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

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• The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.

  

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• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

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• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

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• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

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• I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.

  

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• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

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• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

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• I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.

  

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• As even a democracy like the United States has shown, waging war can benefit a leader in several ways: it can rally citizens around the flag, it can distract them from bleak economic times, and it can enrich a country's elites.

  

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• I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.

  

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• The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.

  

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• We need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country. ... We need law and order in our country.

  

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• But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.

  

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• I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

  

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• I try to do things the right way.

  

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• Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

  

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• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

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