Quotes About Race

What we expect from our drivers, as team mates, is that they show respect for each other and allow one another enough room on the race track.

I do want to race motorbikes when I retire.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

There's not too many rich black people in this world.

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.

Rock 'n' roll is much easier if you're white.

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

Much of America rooted for Mr. Obama simply because he is black.

In America, I feel black with all of the rubbish that comes with it.

Everyone wants to go to countries ruled by white Europeans.

Night was running ahead of itself.

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

For me it's hard, especially being a young African-American woman. My dad doesn't look like what you might call the 'safe' African-American male that America would accept, if you know what I mean.

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

During 'Race 2,' I had to lean down completely because there was a lot of action scenes in it.

I have this theory about science fiction movies in that, when the space race sort of died, a lot of people sort of lost hope.

I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look at it race by race.

I was fortunate to be raised in Seattle, which was amazing, but that doesn't take away from the fact I was still a black kid growing up in America.

The only reason black lives matter to the Left is to secure election majorities at election time. That is the only reason that black lives matter.

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

But when a black player calls a white owner a slave master that's dangerous. It's one thing to say an owner is a good owner or a bad owner, but you have to be careful when you bring race into it.

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing before, but then it was something. So I became one.