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"349 Race Quotes

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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Africa is NOT poor, but poorly managed.
Africa Poor Poorly managed
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It's a good time for black people to be alive.
Good Time Black Alive
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Robert Mugabe will be remembered, above all, for his immense contribution to the liberation of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa from imperialism, colonialism and racist rule. His dedication to the cause of Pan-Africanism is fully acknowledged.

Robert Mugabe Africa Imperialism Colonialism
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.

Accepting Attempted Begins Crow
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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Could Ever Felt Get
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Race is not particularly interesting to me. Power is. Who has power and who doesn't. Slavery interests me because it's an incredible violation that has not stopped. It's necessary to talk about that. Race is a diversion.

About Because Diversion Incredible
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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

About Black Conversation Everywhere
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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

About Conversations Crucial Debates
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

About Actor Body Brain
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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

Black Brown Comics Loads
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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Background Because Moved Own
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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

About America Black Did
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Any Area Black Blocked
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The hopes, dreams and aspirations of our nation and continent rests on you! God has equipped you with special abilities that can enable you scale over any mountain. Although our problems are numerous, I still believe there is hope for Africa!

Hopes Dreams Aspirations Our nations
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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class English English People Paradigm
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

Call Dated English English People
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Animal Being Gregarious Human
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Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Andy Better Even Imagine
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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

After Another Face Find
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What is important is the victory of the people, not of a candidate. We must unite for the good of Madagascar’s people, and we are going to succeed.

Victory Candidate Madagascar Succeed
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

America Automobile Begins Chain
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Back Character Conditions Defined
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Being an indigenous talent of the African race;

Being Indigenous talent Race
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It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish myself two shades darker, rather than one lighter.

Oppressed Enslaved Wished Lighter
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It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Lifelong Quiet Race Steady
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I don’t care about the skin color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That’s just the bottom line of the truth.
Skin color Human being Bleed red
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African people, let’s heal each other, not kill each other.

People Heal Kill
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When you don’t like yourself as an African, you can never like another Africa brother or sister.

When you Like yourself Never Brother
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

Avoid Tribalism Divided Among ourselves
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Religion and tribalism are the first two to arrive at the meeting when Nigerians gather. There is nothing more divisive than them. Imagine both in one room and To make matters worse, they both want to chair the meeting. Chaos!

Religion Tribalism Nigerian Divisive
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Belonging Ever Live Others
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Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.
Ignoring Luxury Men Only
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It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

Because Beliefs Christian Colors
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law.

Africa Dividend Democracy Economic
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With the kinds of progress we’re seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

Progress Africa Kinds Gets better
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I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

Africa Rapid Progress Continent
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It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Associate Deeper Human Human Nature
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It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

About black White Many people Mixed backgrounds
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
Great day White people Black Latinos
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Africa Progress Continent Recognize
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Any Basic Basic Human Rights Citizenship
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

About Because Been Hard
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Born Had Human Human Right
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
Almost Culture Dead Happening
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

Back Balance Colonialism Fight
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South Africa is not our problem, we are. Every black man is tribal, and when it suits us. There is NO Nigerian that hasn’t suffered some kind of discrimination due to tribe.”

Problem Black-man Tribal
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Also Anything Defence Fight
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