Marcel Proust Quotes
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures.
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.
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A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they have ever been taught. I may have been the first black in the house.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
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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.
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Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
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The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.
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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
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Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
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I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.
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Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.
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What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
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Most makeup campaigns are not in black and white.
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.
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Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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In a single second we do away with all seconds; God himself could not do as much.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue.
