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"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
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"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."
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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."
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"In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class."
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"I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers."
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"As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist."
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"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."
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"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."
Life
"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."
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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."
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"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
Identity
"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."
People
"Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death."
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"Always be smarter than the people who hire you."
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"I really do hate to sing."
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"After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time."
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