Race Quotes

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

Sometimes I'm a black. Not everyone realizes blackness has to be conferred upon you again and again. It's like getting your nails done. Or being pantsed. People assume I'm cool.

Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.

You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends

brown life is an unbroken bearing of the weight and hollow of the active absence of brown life.

After so many years struggling to keep up with you, I finally realized we’re not even running the same race.

Serious history was the West, and the West was white.

I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

Their dark skin, their gender, their economic status--none of those were acceptable excuses for not giving the fullest rein to their imaginations and ambitions.

It's hard to catch up when you are running second in a race with time.

Until slow and steady could win the race, being fast and speedier can bring no further grace

At the end of the race nobody really cares about how you started, so stay laser focused and finish strong. Get ready to proclaim "I did it!

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.

If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.

Don't be amazed. There is nothing strange about eight white men being alone and therefore helpless.

Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch

If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

Everyone's colored, or you wouldn't be able to see them.

A person should be important to you for you to be also important to the person so that you will be important to any other person.

I prefer being curious, mischievous and clever black monkey to being filthy, greedy and bad mannered white pig.

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

You can beat me in the rat race, but remember u still remain a rat.

When you're of a different race people distrust you because they are afraid. If you don't give them reason to dislike you, it becomes their problem, not yours.

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human.

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Most races have a finish line, but some racists are running races where since they never hit the finish line, they never finish lying.

If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.

On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

If there’s one shade a woman of colour can’t wear it’s got to be the one everyone expects, hasn’t it?

The white boys knew they had my attention now, but hesitated -- that's the trouble with being a racist in the white heartlands, you don't get a lot of practical experience.

We are real black characters with real character, not the stars of American racist spectacle. Blackness is not probable cause.

By unspoken agreement, we all picked an invisible line in the cracked asphalt and toed it.

Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it's all just too much.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of reason.

People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.

Skin color doesn't make you different, ' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only people who ever say that, ' Raymon replied, 'are white.

Skin color doesn't make you different, " Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only people who ever say that, " Raymond replied, "are white.

Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika.Kira glared at Mika. "I mean, beat her in the race!

I've always wanted to race cars, even since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.