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" When you are the first of anything, there is a bigger responsibility put on you. "

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" Learn to love being black. "

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" When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator. "

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