You can read this quote by President Barack Obama, from a 2007 interview in Time magazine, in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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“I was just reading your column, ‘I'm Creole. Why Do I Have South Asian DNA?’ I, too, have ancestral roots in…
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You can read this quote by Angela Bassett from an interview with the Guardian (2009) in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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You can read this quote by Iman in her book I Am Iman (2001) and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Find out…
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You can read this quote from Oprah Winfrey in the September 2001 issue of O, the Oprah Magazine and in Bartlett’s…
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You can read this text from Cornelius Eady’s poem “Paradiso” in the book You Don’t Miss Your Water (1995) and in Bart…
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You can read this text by Carrie Mae Weems from her work Not Manet’s Type (1997) and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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You can read this quote from Iyanla Vanzant in her book Acts of Faith (1993) and in Bartlett’s Familiar Black…
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“I would like to know if I am related to a president of Mexico. The story told to me was that Jesús Carranza,…
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You can find this quote, from the character Nana Peazant in Julie Dash’s film Daughters of the Dust, in Bartlett’s…
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You can read this quote by the character Zora in Terry McMillan’s novel Disappearing Acts and in Bartlett’s Familiar…
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You can read this quote from a 1997 Essence interview with Geronimo ji-Jaja in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. …
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You can read this quote from Cathy Hughes in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced h…
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Editor's note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment…
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You can read this quote from the book Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1983), and others by…
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