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Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Been Being Black Celebrated Center Driving Forward Generally Kings Leaders More Narrative Our Own People Speaking

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Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.

~David Sanborn

Topics: Any Black Black Community Came Community Growing Growing Up Interest Me Music Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine Percent Out Percent Up

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London is completely unpredictable when it comes to weather. You'll start a scene, and it's a beautiful morning. You get there at 6 in the morning, set up, you start the scene, start shooting. Three hours later, it is pitch black and rainy.

~David Schwimmer

Topics: Beautiful Black Get Hours Later London Morning Pitch Rainy Scene Set Shooting Start Three Unpredictable Up Weather You

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If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.

~David Shields

Topics: Black Bus Bus Driver Doing Driver Get Him Never Off Spot Thank Think Were Whereas White Would

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Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.

~David Shields

Topics: Also Angry Athletes Black Both Cities Context Fascinating Just Me More Most Politics Rich Seattle Slightly Sort Still Than Very White Who

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From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

~David Shields

Topics: America Arriving Black Blacks Commercially Exploited First Fit Harbor Judged Life Logic Ship Slave Stole White

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In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us off that easily. It's a kind of very mild payback for the last 500 years.

~David Shields

Topics: About America Beholden Black Easily Else Kind Last Let Us Mild Nba Nowhere Off People Us Utterly Very White Years

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Are black people conscious of how excruciatingly self-conscious white people have become in their every interaction with black people? Is this self-consciousness an improvement? Maybe not, because I'm thinking of people in categories rather than as people, which is a famously dangerous thing to do.

~David Shields

Topics: Because Become Black Categories Conscious Dangerous Dangerous Thing Every How Improvement Interaction Maybe People Rather Self-Conscious Self-Consciousness Than Thing Thinking Which White

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It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

~David Stern

Topics: America Athletes Black Could Defying Michael Nba Ok Only People Phenomenon Previous Really See Sell Sport Were White Wisdom

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I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

~David Stern

Topics: Black Equal Fans Game Good Got Here Make Official Out Persuaded Place Pretty Rules Set Sports Well Where Whether White You

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