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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

Life Lights Love Middle
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You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

Black Essential Little Occasion
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Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

Black Colour Elegant Enhance
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

Brutality Community Down Educational
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I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

About Being Black Confront
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
Also Blacks Call Hip-Hop
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In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

Black Brothers Cry Had
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It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

About Any Being Black
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If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Any Black Care Category
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Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Black Black And White Contrast Highlight
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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

Always Bad Bad Guy Black
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What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

Benefit Black Elite Empowerment
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Black Little Live Makes
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

Black Black And White Channel Could
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

American Black Definition I Think
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Badly Black Does Doing
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Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you're in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don't recommend it.

Almost Basically Being Besides
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I am for feminism. I stand up for women standing up for themselves in the same way I stand up for being black.
Am Being Black Feminism
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England is so black and white, so plain, like a burger with nothing on it. No salad, nothing. That's why it's so real.

Black Black And White Burger England
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.

George Bush Doesn't About
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Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Blacks Especially America Have
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

You See Black Family
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

America Black Body Brilliant
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

Issues Terribly Black White
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Because Black Dislike He
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Accept Answer Ask Because
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

Because Black Catholic Color
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I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

Always Barriers Been Black
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I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older.

Able Avoid Because Black
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

Kings Children Men World
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If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Beautiful Beautiful Music Black Make
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Oh, there's all these Rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

Oh There's All These
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.

Because Black Dignified Dignity
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The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Atrocious Black Business Climate
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I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.

Beauty Joint Cologne Love
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

Always America Black Feel
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Prefer After Beauty Know
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.

Accept Black Definitions Man
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
Black Education Indoctrination White
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The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

Black Forever Holds Need
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I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Rich Poor Black Rise
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Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.
Jazz Black Classical
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Studying Black Concert Pianists
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I'm sorry that I did not become the world's first black classic pianist. I think I would have been happier.

Sorry World's Classic Pianist
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