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		The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrisse Cullors
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Each black hole spins on its axis like the Earth spins. That spin creates two vortexes of twisting space, somewhat like vortexes in a bathtub or a whirlpool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kip Thorne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Conan O'Brien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexander McQueen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pauline Hanson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kat Graham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Afrika Bambaataa
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Al Roker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cormac McCarthy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zora Neale Hurston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		About the time I was 7, I got really into black-exploitation films, so I made my own Wonder Woman, but I made her black.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Bradford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bobby Seale
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's not going to stop until 'we' stop it. And it's not just white man that's doing this to Brenda. It's not just white man that's keeping us trapped. It's 'black.' And we have to find the new African in everybody... But before we can be African, we gotta be black first.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tupac Shakur
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Shane: "Score," he said, and raised the crowbar in triumph. "Who's your daddy?" - Black Dawn
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Caine