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"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."
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"I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever."
Inferiority
"People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth."
People
"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."
People
"The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress."
Progress
"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."
Skin
"Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects."
War
"It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape."
People
"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was."
Business
"What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?"
Wrong
"When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves."
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"A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin."
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"I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan."
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"But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool."
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"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."
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"Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault."
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"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."
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"I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash."
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"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."
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"I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet."
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"I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water."
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