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• ‟ The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

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• ‟ Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

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• ‟ Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

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• ‟ I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

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• ‟ I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

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• ‟ No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

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• ‟ In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

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• ‟ One must learn how to be black in America.

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• ‟ In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

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• ‟ Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

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• ‟ Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

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• ‟ It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

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• ‟ In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.

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