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Fred Allen

"If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race."

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Asa Don Brown

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

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Asa Don Brown

"I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race."

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"Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists."

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Asa Don Brown

"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

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Asa Don Brown

"There is nothing like race, is there?"

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Asa Don Brown

"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

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Asa Don Brown

"It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered."

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Asa Don Brown

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

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Asa Don Brown

"In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year."

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Asa Don Brown

"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."

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