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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Active Avoid Being Black Carefully Chose Feminists Foreign Friends Marxist Mistaken More Performance Poets Politically Professors Sellout Structural Students

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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

~Barack Obama

Topics: Barack Barack Obama Black Choice Free Free World Guy Leader Looking Named Next Obama Safe Supporting World You

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North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.

~Barbara Demick

Topics: Ally Black Cheap Collapse Collapsed Communist Early Early 1990S Economy Faded Fuel Had Inefficient Korea North North Korea Oil Old Power Ruin Soviet Soviet Union Stations Union Up Which 1990S

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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: Black Blacks Clear Compared Evidence Fact In Fact Intellectual Only Percent Reagan Retire Ronald Reagan Superiority Voted Whites

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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

~Barbara Ehrenreich

Topics: About Becoming Black Black Holes Cruelty Extinct Going Hitting Holes Just Lot Planets Species Stars Talking Time Up Whole

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Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

~Barbara Jordan

Topics: Black Brain Brain Power Call Green Power

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I have this L'Oral Superstar mascara, it's two sizes: One side is to make it thicker, and then you put the black layer on, and it gives a beautiful look.

~Barbara Palvin

Topics: Beautiful Black Gives Layer Look Make Mascara Put Side Sizes Superstar Then Thicker Two You

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I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

~Barbara Park

Topics: Black Black And White Comment Common Common Denominator Denominator Gray Her Like Looks Lowest Negative Think White World

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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

~Barbara Smith

Topics: Afford Been Black Fools Group Never Women

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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

~Barbara Smith

Topics: Been Black Easier Female Feminism Gifts Greatest Greatest Gifts Little Make Ourselves Simply

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