"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

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"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

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"When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful."

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