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"Many people have said to me, you became secretary of state of the U.S.A., is it still necessary to say that you are an African-American or that you are black, and I say, Yes, so that we can remind our children.”And we are still waiting for the good General's endorsement.
"It took a lot of people struggling to bring me to this point in history. I didn't just drop out of the sky, people came from my continent in chains."