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"349 Race Quotes

It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Good Time Black Alive
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Africa is NOT poor, but poorly managed.
Africa Poor Poorly managed
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If you hate me cuz of my skin colour you ain’t no human being, you belong to the zoo

Skin colour The zoo Human being Hate me
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It’s not like I’m anti-China. I just think it’s ridiculous that we allow them to do what they’re doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

Currency Country Understand Anti-China
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Some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

Defeat Past Lost Race
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Nation Curse Sort Action
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There was a huge period of time  where  I was filming and studying. But then we went into summer and it became easier. I did find combining the two difficult and I haven't figured out how to do it effortlessly just yet.

Studying Huge Period Filming
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Excellence Best Racism Sexism
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Poem Dignity Learn Race
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The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.

Severe Constant Result Progress
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Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true.

Racism Tired Ignorant Old
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Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

Africa Best Ever Principles
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Black Women World Us
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It’s so many different flavors and shades.

Beauty White Flavour Shade
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

Unique Style Black Braid
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.

Race Problem Unless Hatred
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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Immortality Imagine Gone Kind
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Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

Identity Born Being Matter
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African problems should have African solutions.

African Problems Solutions Race
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Don’t think about the start of the race.

About Start Race Think
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Legends People Time Before
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What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Express Reason Invent Imagine
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I'm not black, but there's a whole lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white.

Whole Black White Times
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Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

Race Hate Human Nature
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A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Woman Get Angry Man
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Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.

Humanity Can Live Without
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

Racing Dangerous Love Worry
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Between History Instant Mankind
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There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

American Cycle Destiny Events
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Catch Fast He Horse
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Because Brief Brief Moment Change
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

Claim Confidence Magnitude People
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Among Bed English Excited
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Accord Encouraged Even Faster
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The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Back Death Development Every
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Black hating black is the reason why the growth is taunt

Black Hating Reason Growth
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Awe-Inspiring Curious Display Drunk
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

About Aspect Campus Career
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Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

All Races Black Clearly Gone
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Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Binary Continuum Label Make
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To say 'radical feminist' is only a way of indicating that I believe the sexual caste system is a root of race and class and other divisions.

Believe Caste Class Divisions
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One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friends Human Human Race Part
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When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
Agree Always Conclusions Different
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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
Come Day Position Powerful
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Accepts Blacks Bottom Class
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I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

Army Basketball Because Being
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Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

Associated Being Condition Creatures
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Earth Event Every His
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