All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. Nora K. Jemisin Age • Fiction • Golden • Heinlein • Jewish • Males • People • Process • Science • Straight • White • Whole Acculturation Process • Writers
Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain. B. B King Better • Black • Fountain • Water • White • White Fountain
I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues. B. B King Black • Blues • Brother • People • Poor • Red • Rich • White • Yellow
Touring a segregated America – forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person. B. B King America • Cops • Dirty • Empty • Feel • Forever • Guts • Hurt • Less • Person • Segregated • Someone • White • You
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep… Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such. B. B King Anytime Something • Bad • Black • Black Monday • Christmas • Course Everything • Friday • Good • Good Stuff • Kinda Way • Little Black Sambo • Mississippi • Monday • School • Sheep • White
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