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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.

— Larry Rivers

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

— Henry Louis Gates

The less I talk about being black, the better.

— Idris Elba

I don't mind being black. I'm black out loud. It's more than the people that they are, it's the condition that they represent.

— Mos Def

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

— Mem Fox

Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'

— Michael Che

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

— Kym Whitley

Unfortunately, I don't know many black people.

— Miriam Margolyes

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are many positive things to say about the black community. No question about it.

— William Julius Wilson