“I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.”

— Morgan Freeman

Source: [Freeman calls Black History Month ‘ridiculous’, https://web.archive.org/web/20051217080712/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10482634, Associated Press, New York, December 15, 2005, December 4, 2017]

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