It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially … - Darryl Pinckney

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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Darryl Pinckney

It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.

Artist, Difference, Differences, Suicide, True, Voting

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In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story.

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There's a class divide in black America that doesn't seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can't afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.

America, Black, Class, Everyone, Progress, Stand

Hillary certainly needs the black vote, and Democrats need it. She's not doing anything too soon; she's raising her money and not wanting any issues to come back and bite her later. The black vote will be crucial for Hillary and so will the women's vote.

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Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear arms," but he did. In the meantime, the clear and present danger is the Republicans in the Senate. A lot of politics isn't heroic, it's as day-to-day as our lives themselves. We always want to make the Byronic choices, but Byron himself was not Byronic all the time either.

Byronic, Choices, Clear, Everyone, Heroic, Republican

I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.

Hardship, President, Suggests, Trying

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