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The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.

~Darlene Love

Topics: Actually Away Background Black Blossoms California Did First Giving Had Just Recording Singers Start Were Work

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I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.

~Darlene Love

Topics: Any Background Because Black Blossoms Doing Enjoyed Every First Group Minute Singers Singing Were

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I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.

~Darlene Love

Topics: About Background Black Blossoms Came Did Doing Even First Gave Just Know Name Only Our Session Singers Started Think Us Were White Who I Think

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All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.

~Darryl Glenn

Topics: Been Black Enjoy Life Me My Life People Poor Short Too Underestimate

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I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.

~Darryl Glenn

Topics: Absolutely Against Am America Black Conservative Democratic Democrats Most Nightmare Party Republican Running See Vulnerable Well Why Worst You I Am

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Where are Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton? They don't speak for Black America, and they don't speak for me.

~Darryl Glenn

Topics: Al America Black Jackson Me Speak Where

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If you are a black person growing up in America, chances are pretty good that you have experienced the police pulling you over in front of your mother's house because you 'had a headlight out.'

~Darryl Glenn

Topics: America Because Black Chances Experienced Front Good Growing Growing Up Had House Mother Out Over Person Police Pretty Pretty Good Pulling Up You Your

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Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.

~Darryl Glenn

Topics: Absolutely Being Black Driving Fact Here Humiliation No Reason Other Reason Stopped Than Understand While

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Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Black Cousins Elderly Ever Every Exists Grandparents Harlem Kind Legends Mecca Memory Musicals Preserved Ready Remembered Retrospect Scenes Square Texts Those Times Times Square Virtually

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After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: After Arm Because Being Black Even Evolved Fears Former Friends Had Kind Newspapers Opposition Press Propaganda Reconstruction Slaves

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