Barack Obama, address at Howard University (May 2016), as quoted in "Obama's full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony", Politico (7 May 2016)
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Be confident in your blackness!

— Black people

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Be confident in your blackness!" in the context of "Barack Obama, address at Howard University (May 2016), as quoted in "Obama's full remarks at Howard University commencement ceremony", Politico (7 May 2016)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Black people

About Black people

Black people usually refers to people of relatively recent African descent (see African diaspora), although other usages extend the term to any of the populations characterized by having a dark skin color, a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania and Southwest Asia.