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"349 Race Quotes

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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English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Class English English People Paradigm
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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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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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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 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've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

Black Brown Comics Loads
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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'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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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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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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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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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 have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.

Around Because Been Bus
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
Color Many People Talented
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Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

About Against Discriminate Genetics
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

Anna Color Critics Film
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I'm trying to get Americans to see that we're all pretty much the same. I believe it; I was taught God doesn't have a color. I want to better the planet a little bit.

American Believe Better Bit
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Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Folks Hate Never Understand
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Every single thing in my life is built around race.
Around Built Every Every Single Thing
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As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

Always Black Folks Person
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Because Black Feel Know
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That’s why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It’s worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

This generation Least racist Time Club
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Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

Racism Taught Home Teenager
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Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don’t think it’s given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I’m going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Racial relations Think Proper credit
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The best and noblest gifts of humanity cannot be the monopoly of a particular race or country; its scope may not be limited nor may it be regarded as the miser's hoard buried underground.

The best Noblest gifts Humanity Monopoly
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We ought to know that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder. We are not doing well at all. Until the rate of recovery is higher than the rate of infected persons, then can we be less perturbed.

Nigeria Gun powder Keg Higher than
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There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

One thing Fear Life The black
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Until we start accepting and appreciating our languages, tribes, traditions and learn to preserve the village setup,which is slowly losing importance because of modern day civilization. We shall forever be foreign but in our black skin.

Our languages Tribes Traditions Black skin
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A conflict free Africa. Together we can achieve the dreams of our founding fathers.

Africa Conflict free Dreams Fathers
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Circumstances change in every moment of every race.

Circumstances change Moment Race
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When will the African people unite? When will the African people come together? Europeans, Americans getting stronger every day, And there is disunity among the African people

African Unite American European
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There is nothing like a white race, black race, brown race, yellow race. We have one race which is the human race. When you understand this, every life will matter to you. No one has the right to kill a fellow human

Black race White race Human race Fellow human
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The Igbos, when they are returned to the fold, must be given their rightful place and as a people who have been misguided and misled by their leaders, the rest of us have a duty to bind their wounds and give them our right hand of fellowship.

The Igbos The fold Leaders Misled
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We cannot pretend that we are unaware of the machinations and conspiracies against our Continent by not just the racists of South Africa but even with those who pretend to be the friends of this Continent but whose sole interest is in what they can get out of us.

Pretend Machinations Conspiracies Racist
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Africa has Come of age. It is no longer under the orbit of any extra continental power. It should no longer take orders from any country, however powerful.

Africa No longer Power Orbit
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If Africa does in fact rank so low in United States concern, it becomes even more irritating that an American Administration should suddenly take upon itself to dictate to this august assembly how to settle an African problem.

Race African problem United States.Concern Rank so low
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We know that all the African peoples are our brothers. Our struggle is their struggle. Every drop of blood that falls in our countries falls also from the body and heart of our brothers, these African peoples.

African people Struggle Blood Body
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Until Africa is Strong! We can Never Truly be Strong!

Africa Never Be strong Truly
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I feel like Im able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

Able To relate All races People
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Ethics to me is very important.

Ethnics Very important
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I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

Am black Getting around Define Every aspect
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Africans will one day realize the devastating effect of discarding the root and running after foreign and strange religion.

Africans One day Realize Devastating
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There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

There's smile My face Human race
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.

Great revolutions The presence Blacks
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Being black is a privilege and an honor
Black Privilege Honor
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I am trying to memorize all the names of black men and women killed by the Police in America since last year.

Memorize all Names Black men Women
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The artist making intricate portraits of black life

The artist Making intricate Portraits Black life
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You can send the armored cars, and your vicious dogs. And your howitzers, and your cavalry. But. Mr. Trump, you cannot kill the spirit of a hurt people.

Can send Armored cars Vicious dogs Your cavalry
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