If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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William Henry Cosby Jr. ( KOZ-bee; born July 12, 1937) is an American former comedian, actor, and media personality. Often deemed a trailblazer for African Americans in the entertainment industry, Cosby was well known in the United States for his stand-up comedy routines and television career before achieving global recognition...

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

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I think it's helpful to remind white ethnics that they, too, came here in boats; that they, too, lived in slums; that they, too, had yellow fever; that they, too, were stigmatized as incorrigible; that they, too, had the highest homicide rates and the highest incarceration rates and the highest rates of mental illness; and that everything that was said about them in those days is now being said about Salvadorans, Dominicans, African Americans, Mexicans, Vietnamese, and Cambodians in our inner cities.

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I have come to see white privilege as an invisible package of unearned assets that I can count on cashing in each day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious. White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.

—Peggy McIntosh

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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.

—Dick Gregory

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