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• I used to get letters saying, 'I didn't know black children and white children were the same.'

  Dick Gregory

  Children, Black, Letters

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• When I go through the airport and see white women walking through the airport barefooted, like athlete's feet don't exist, there's something wrong.

  Dick Gregory

  Athlete, Airports, Feet

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

  Dick Gregory

  Rights, Black, Movement

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

  Dick Gregory

  Law, Black, Flats

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• Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

  John Grisham

  Inmates, Prison, Type

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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  Carla Gugino

  Sports, Black And White, Winning

  "Q&A: The 'Mighty' Fine Carla Gugino And David Boreanaz". Interview With Jenni Miller, www.mtv.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I'm normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that's at hand. And then I'll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again. My wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I'll play with certain elements, but it's - I don't really think too much about it.

  Daphne Guinness

  Black And White, Thinking, Hands

  "Daphne Guinness: An Icon On Fashion's Cutting Edge". "All Things Considered" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. November 13, 2011.

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• If black people mistrust white people, they are mistrusting racism, and that is appropriate.

  Jasmine Guy

  Racism, People, Black

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• My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

  Alex Haley

  Men, Roots, Yellow

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• It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

  Conrad Hall

  Black And White, Light, Gnarly

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• People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, People, Trying

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• There isn't any great mystery about me. What I do is glamorous and has an awful lot of white-hot attention placed on it. But the actual work requires the same discipline and passion as any job you love doing, be it as a very good pipe fitter or a highly creative artist.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

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• What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

  Tom Hanks

  Brother, Hero, Black And White

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• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, Flags, Conservative

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Remember, Shows

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• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

  Jim Henson

  Black And White, Nbc, Color

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• Most of the time, I'm in khakis and a white T-shirt. I'm a total Gap girl. Super casual, hair in a pony tail and no makeup.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Girl, Makeup, Hair

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All this stuff is so mind-blowing to me that I get to do in my life. Throwing the first pitch out at the White Sox game on a random Wednesday? Like who am I? How did I get this life? I'm glad I'm not jaded, and little kids are the least jaded people in the entire world, so it's fun to be around people that still find wonder in how cool things are.

  Jonah Hill

  Fun, Kids, Games

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• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, Car

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, People, Research

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• I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

  Bell Hooks

  Black, Students, Disturbed

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• I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  Lena Horne

  Afterlife, Hollywood, Imitation

  "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.

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• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  Eddie Huang

  Yellow, People, Inspire

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• How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

  William Morris Hunt

  Eggs, Drawing, Lines

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

  Chrissie Hynde

  Real, Black And White, Men

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