Race Quotes

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

The USPS is the only place in the world where you will find a black guy, a white guy, and a hispanic guy playing Filipino poker! And we love it that way!

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

In the race of life I would rather to be around the best and sink than to be around mediocrity and swim.

In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

If life is becoming a race, could it be time to slow down?"el

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

I am proud of my complexion, there is always someone darker than you, thats just true Be proud your YOU.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma’am.

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had matured in a different atmosphere, where the herd instinct does not flourish.

Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.

I advise you to be suspicious of any black American whose family does not claim a blood connection to Native Americans. That’s a clear sign of a racial infiltrator who has not done enough research.

I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.

It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I race to win.

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.

You ever think about the noose?''I been thinking about the noose since I was born.

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys.

It is important to understand the objective of every race. Sometimes it is important to win. Sometimes it is more than enough if you just complete the race.

What happened yesterday was obviously a mistake, and it will never be spoken of again. Goodbye forever.

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

Anyone intent on moral clarity might want to find another book and, in fact, might not want to go anywhere near the enduring chasm of race in the United States.

Any race I go into, I've always got the attitude of throwing myself into and wanting nothing but No. 1.

I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money.

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I'll take it to the track.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.