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I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

~Charlie Sifford

Topics: Accept Believe Black Country Get Golfer Man Me Never Now People Prejudiced Some True White Wrong I Believe

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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: About Also America American Back Bias Black Cognitive Convictions Decades Decide Face Forced Least Liberals Modify Obama President Ready Surrender White Would

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When I moved to New York to start my acting career, I was always very, very careful to walk way around ladders, and black cats could ruin my day. There were many silly things that brought fear into my life.

~Charlotte Rae

Topics: Acting Acting Career Always Around Black Brought Career Careful Cats Could Day Fear Life Many Moved My Life New New York Ruin Silly Silly Things Start Things Very Walk Way Were York

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In the end, the great leveler in any sport is performance on the field or on the court. Kids don't care what language players speak or if they eat tacos, rice, or sauerkraut. They don't care if they're white, black, or brown.

~Cheech Marin

Topics: Any Black Brown Care Court Eat End Field Great In The End Kids Language Performance Players Rice Speak Sport White

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I liked Jackie Robinson because he was cool to watch, not because he was black. Every time you turned around, he was hitting a triple or making a great play in the field or, best of all, stealing home.

~Cheech Marin

Topics: Around Because Best Black Cool Every Every Time Field Great He Hitting Home Jackie Jackie Robinson Liked Making Play Robinson Stealing Time Triple Turned Watch You

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Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.

~Chelsea Manning

Topics: After Arriving Black Black Hole Camp Confinement First First Time Hole Jail Kuwait May Military Placed Solitary Solitary Confinement Time

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'Chels-emojis' are in the works. I use emojis heavily in life, and I think a lot of people do. There are a number that are frustratingly absent - you know how there's kind of a generic white man and a generic white woman? I just want to put a generic black man and a generic black woman.

~Chelsea Peretti

Topics: Absent Black Generic How Just Kind Know Life Lot Man Number People Put Think Use Want White Woman Works You I Think

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If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

~Cher

Topics: Any Black Could Country Minority Possess Possibly Republican Vote Woman You

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I am a black belt in martial arts. I like to drink scotch. I go skydiving. So I never really saw myself as a woman or a minority. I just went out there and did my thing, and it didn't even cross my mind.

~Cheryl Yeoh

Topics: Am Arts Belt Black Cross Did Drink Even Go Just Like Martial Martial Arts Mind Minority Myself Never Out Really Saw Scotch Skydiving Thing Woman I Am

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American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

~Chester Himes

Topics: American Any Became Black Detective Form Go Life Number Public Public Life Should Story Think Violence Way Writers

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