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Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

Stokely Carmichael

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.
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Beautiful Daughter Home Yourself
Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!
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Beautiful Black Ourselves
The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.
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Define Freedom Need Terms
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we’d be hard put to distinguish them.
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Corruption Dog Leadership Uniform Weapon
No man can given anybody his freedom.
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Freedom Man
I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power!
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Black Jail Power Prison Way
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.
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Black Build Community Country Organization People Sense
I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn’t know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me
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Black Known Myself People Place Stop White
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
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Courage Enemy Time Vulnerable
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
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Black National People Struggle Tragedy Young
What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
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Change Himself Liberty Position
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
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Black Civil Country People Right White
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
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Close Open Rank Society
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
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Aware Death Fact Hands Struggle
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
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Capitalism Stupidity System
One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.
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Change Fight Influence Oneself

Our noses are broad, our lips are thick, our hair is nappy-we are black and beautiful!

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