Race Quotes

Slow and steady wins the race, only and only if the rabbit, competent, sleeps a while. But, fast and consistency always win it, even if rabbit is awaken.

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Those white things have taken all I had or dreamed, " she said, "and broke my heartstrings too. There is no bad luck in the world but whitefolks.

To those supremacist racists I ask what color will be their bodies when they turn to dust.

There's "good" in all things. You just have to find it.

African-Amendment.

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

It is in racists' best interest to maintain white supremacy at all costs. They will defend it with their lives, but ONLY after they've defended it with ours.

Black people are either threats or entertainment.

The United States is like one big jail for Black people, because we're locked into a mentality and a mindset that limits our potential. It has us against us.

I’m saying that sometimes we don’t want to see the ugliness in others because it means seeing what’s ugly in ourselves.

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

But in the earlier hours, or so I have read, they still have got their daylight minds. It takes the midnight mind to do the black deed to the black man.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Familiar words for dead black boys portrayed as complicit in their own demise. Michael Donald's body had been hanged on a Mobile street, and the police were doing the same thing to his name.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

..Liberals see racism where it doesn't exist, fabricate it when they can't find it and ignore it within their own ranks.

Not all ‘whites’ are racists. Not all racists are ‘white.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

In the race of life, you need self confidence, courage and faith in your abilities to win the race.

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be.

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".

I have lived long enough to learn that the worst kind of beings, are human beings.

Wisdom of the Ages: "Hillary" Has replaced the term "battle-axe" to describe an undesirable mother-in-law in 37 languages.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor

Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens

We die a day at a time

Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?

The sharpest minds often ruin their lives by overthinking the next step, while the dull win the race with eyes closed.

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

I guess I'd rather have a truthful neighbor who says he hates me than a lyin' one who claims he loves me.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

My color is my joy and not my burden...