"I'm with an old family" was the..." - Quote by Malcolm X
I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.
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“The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.”
“Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.”
“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”
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“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”
“It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.”
“It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.”
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“If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife.”
“Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.”
“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”