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Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.

~Anna Deavere Smith

Topics: About Both Both Men And Women Brown Communities Concern Course Criminal Criminal Justice Criminal Justice System Growing How Jail Justice Know Men Men And Women Now Number People Prison Put Quickly Rapidly Right School Sent Some Statistics System Terrible Terrible Thing Thing Well Women

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It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

~Anna Julia Cooper

Topics: Black Brown Cause Even Hear Her Ignorant Intelligent Man Nay Needs Nor Red Speaking Strongest Tis Vindication Voice White Woman World

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My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Always Around Brown Eyes Find Flower Frantic Keeps Large Like Mother Quite Sam Son Unlike Were Who

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

~Anne Sexton

Topics: Beer Brown Full God Soft Voice

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The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: African Brown Charleston Choice Church Deliberate Denmark Episcopal Failed First Founded Given Go Group History Including Large Lead Likely Men Methodist Morris Most Pastor Prominent Revolt Shooter Slave South Who Would

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You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Able Again Bestseller Brown Dan Elegant Even Meaningful Need Produce Sentence String Time Together Vaguely Way You

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You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

~Antonio Villaraigosa

Topics: Brown Candidate Expect Face Going Just Out Party People Spanish Vote You Your

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I am a believer in nutrient timing and supplementation, through 8Zone. I love eggs, apples, wild fish, leafy greens, brown rice, pasta, oatmeal, home grown Washington Potatoes, and cooking with coconut and olive oils.

~Apolo Ohno

Topics: Am Apples Believer Brown Coconut Cooking Eggs Fish Greens Grown Home Love Oatmeal Oils Olive Pasta Potatoes Rice Through Timing Washington Wild I Am I Love

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I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.

~Archie Panjabi

Topics: Acting Acting Career Any Black Box Brown Career Days Faces Go Hardly Management Much Off Phd Started Switched Take Then Those University Very Wanted Were You

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I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.

~Aretha Franklin

Topics: Around Beyonce Brown Certainly Chris Chris Brown Enjoy Factor Got People Usher While Will

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