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But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there’s any barriers. I’ve never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It’s as if I’m racist towards white girls!

I don’t think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they’re black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That’s what we’re upset about.

Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.