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Quotes About Race

To be white in President Trumps America is to fundamentally belong.
~ Alex Wagner
What White America and Black America wanted and expected from Obama were fundamentally different and opposite things.
~ Joy Reid
Feminists will not be satisfied until every abortion is performed by a gay black doctor under an endangered tree on a reservation for handicapped Indians.
~ Florence King
2014, the Justice Department reported that 6 percent of all black men age thirty to thirty-nine were in prison; the rate for Hispanic men the same age was 2 percent, and it was 1 percent for white men in that age group. It is also important to note that even now, if property crimes are included with violent crimes, 69 percent of all crimes reported to the police
~ Fox Butterfield
I dare say it's because there's such a lot o' blacks there instead o' respectable white people. When I heard you was
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
The most beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex.
~ Francesca Lia Block
He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle and infuse their bloodlines in a great new pooling of genes. And the race knew only one sure way for this—the ancient way, the tried and certain way that rolled over everything in its path: jihad. Surely
~ Frank Herbert
Moram brže tr?ati. Povijest je neprestana utrka izme?u izuma i katastrofe. Školovanje pomaže, ali nikad nije dovoljno. Moraš i tr?ati.
~ Frank Herbert
The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity. It's in the bloodstream—the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.
~ Frank Herbert
seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.
~ Frank Herbert
I am a theater of processes, he told himself. I am a prey to the imperfect vision, to the race consciousness and its terrible purpose.
~ Frank Herbert
The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.
~ Frank Herbert
It soon became apparent that Trina would be an extraordinarily good housekeeper. Economy was her strong point. A good deal of peasant blood still ran undiluted in her veins, and she had all the instinct of a hardy and penurious mountain race—the instinct which saves without any thought, without idea of consequence—saving for the sake of saving, hoarding without knowing why. Even McTeague did not know how closely Trina held to her new-found wealth.
~ Frank Norris
Hey, you know something people? I'm not black But there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white
~ Frank Zappa
Mr. Trump is an entertainer, bringing a rawness and wildness to the presidential race that no other candidate can come close to matching.
~ Anand Giridharadas
My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.
~ William S. Hart
I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.
~ Walter Dean Myers
I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great heritage and I hope I can help write a good chapter in their history.
~ Bruno Senna
Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.
~ Monte Irvin
Iris is the Lois Lane of 'The Flash.' It's a really special role. Knowing they were willing to offer it to an African American - Iris is traditionally white - I knew how important this would be for so many people.
~ Candice Patton
Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the past and the continuing misrepresentations of historians.
~ Dawn Foster
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
~ Robert Kennedy
I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten their butts kicked badly. They should've been handled physically, but they should not have been killed.
~ Niger Innis