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I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture - particularly in black male culture - and to help people to see that there's room enough for everyone.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Black Concepts Culture Draw Enough Everyone Help Help People How Illuminate Male Masculinity Narrow Our Particularly People Room See Sexuality Trying

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My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin and a head full of big, wet-looking curls, black as oil. And he had the smile of a scoundrel - the kind of smile that disarmed men and undressed women.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Big Black Brown Child Curls Dark Disarmed Father Flawless Full Had He Head Kind Man Men Name Oil Plaything Scoundrel Short Skin Smile Women

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In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Black Communities Concept Elevated Forever Idea Income Income Inequality Inequality Lives Matter Minority Occupy Occupy Wall Street Policing Relates Same Street Wall Wall Street Way

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My mother was a stout woman with a man's name - Billie. She was plain-faced with honest eyes - no black grease by the lash line, no blue powder on the lids, eyebrows not plucked up high and thin.

~Charles M. Blow

Topics: Black Blue Eyebrows Eyes Grease High Honest Line Man Mother Name Powder She Thin Up Woman

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Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

~Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

Topics: Angel Black Devil Hell Hot Love Pure Sweet

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I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to pass for nothing but black and not too light enough to be called white.

~Charles Mingus

Topics: Am Black Charles Enough Even Light Man Nor Nothing Pass Too White Yellow I Am

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The idea of an e-book has been around since the late 1970s, when researchers at Xerox PARC got on the case. Their prototype used millions of little magnetic particles, black on one side and white on the other, loosely embedded in the surface of a soft sheet of rubber.

~Charles Platt

Topics: Around Been Black Case Embedded Got Idea Late Little Loosely Magnetic Millions Other Particles Prototype Researchers Rubber Sheet Side Since Soft Surface Used White Xerox 1970S

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Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn't.

~Charles Soule

Topics: Black Bolt Cast Dirty Get Hands He Larger Leader Part Ways Who

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A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

~Charles Spurgeon

Topics: Argument Aside Black Cloud Convictions Dark God His Laid Light Lost Mercy Sign Sun

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One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.

~Charles Stross

Topics: Became Being Black Black And White Climbing Down Earliest Fairly First Front Hour Image Kids Ladder Landing Man Many Moon Morning New Parents Sat Some Sort Suit Television Up Watching Were White

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