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I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who's 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: About African African American Allowed American Because Being David Different Different Kinds Elevator Hopefully Inspires Kinds Me Metaphor Own Published Race Ralph See Someone Take Them Using Voices Wanting Weird World Write

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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: African African Americans American Battling Century Major Major Part Now Part Racism Spent 20Th Century

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Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

~Constance Wu

Topics: Actress African African American American Auditioning Because Box Check Ethnic Girl Indian Latina Lead Like Need Off Our Slot Third White Will

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Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: About Africa African Brought Freedom He His His Way Honor Jail Mandela Nelson Nelson Mandela Nonviolence Nonviolent Out Prison Really Sat South South Africa South African Suffering Ultimately Way Years

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My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

~Cornel West

Topics: African Always Barack Barack Obama Being Black Brilliant Brother Certain Context Dear Father Fear Free Grows Had He Known Man Men Obama Skin Up White Who Young

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Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

~Corrine Brown

Topics: African Blood Confederacy Fight Give Large Large Part Life Made Part Possible Ready Slaves Southern States Sweat Tears Through Up Way Were Which

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I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American Am American Christian Deeply Leader Man Understood Want I Am

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My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

~Cory Booker

Topics: African African American American Away Before Better Better Life Born Chances Circumstances Days Election Father Few Growing Growing Up Had He His Last Life Man Mother Passed Poor Same Single Single Mother South Than Today Up Worry Would Years Young Young Man

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I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it done. Just because you're African American, you still can touch the masses. And that's my goal. I won't stop until that goal is continued to push it hard to the world that we are the universal person as well.

~Cory Hardrict

Topics: African African American American Because Continue Done Get Goal Good Good Material Hard Just Just Because Masses Material People Person Push Show Still Stop Them Touch Trying Universal Until Well World You

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We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Africa African Black Evolved Four Groups Out Same Three

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