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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Black patients were treated much later in their disease process. They were often not given the same kind of pain management that white patients would have gotten and they died more often of diseases.

A black person grows up in this country - and in many places - knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

As important as the presidency is, that's not the only thing to take a look at in determining the racial health of the United States.

The less I talk about being black, the better.

We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.