Quotes About Race

I grew up in Flatbush, Queens, Laurelton. These are places where it's mostly black and there was a lot of diversity.

Nowadays, 'Drag Race' shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won't sit through a boring show anymore. You have to keep people entertained.

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

I drive quite a bit. I always drive myself to the airport prior to a race.

To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

Bad luck never lost a race.

I like the danger, I like the adrenaline and I need it to race.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I were also there.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

I'm from Erie, Pennsylvania. We're just naturally really nice, I think. In a show like 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' that isn't always good.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race.

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