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Michael East

"If it's a slow race you have to be on your guard. You have to be patient, but I prefer that."

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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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Asa Don Brown

"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

"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

"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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Asa Don Brown

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

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Asa Don Brown

"I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats."

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Asa Don Brown

"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

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Asa Don Brown

"I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences."

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"I could produce spurts of speed and after taking up athletics I found myself running quite quickly over 400m."
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"So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!"
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"It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training."
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"Stepping up a gear during any race is not an easy thing to do."
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"You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet."
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"If you go too soon, you can come unstuck with 50m left when the guys are going past you."
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"Deciding on when to kick is crucial and depends on how the race is unfolding."
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"If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb."
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"Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable."
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