Quotes About Race

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

I believe in my race, colour. I never felt inferior to anyone. Maybe that's why the folks who made me feel that way, may think Vivian Richards is the most arrogant guy on earth, but no. I bat for human beings, equal rights.

I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.

I don't want to not be African. The goal is to live in a world where my race doesn't limit my access, where I can see myself represented in the highest level of society without any limitation.

I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.

My first race was in October 2001 in Kapsabet, Kenya. It was a 10km road race. I was excited and I was happy to know I am good in running.

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.

Actors are like race horses. They like to run - they don't like to be hanging about.

Normally, if I don't qualify as well as I think I can, I seem to carry a little chip on my shoulder for the race, and that normally helps me out.

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race.

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to race at home, so I wouldn't miss it.

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

I can't identify a race of people in this country who are more committed to the health of this country, who believe more in the Constitution, who believe more in equality and liberation and fairness to everyone else than black people.

Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees.

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting creativity.

We all have preconceptions of people based on what we have been told about them and their race and ethnicity.

By isolating the issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, climate change, environment, governance, economics, catastrophe and whatever other problems the present embodies or the future may bring, science fiction can do what Dickens and Sinclair did: make real the consequences of social injustice or human folly.

I certainly would never presume to play another race of a person. Diversity is important in Hollywood, and I would never want to feel like I was playing a character that was offensive.