Quotes About Race

To have a home Grand Prix is awesome, so just to go there is already a buzz.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I like being part of the Great Britain setup. I like feeling I'm at a race that is important and the pressure that goes with it.

Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to win here, and that's what I want to do.

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

In Blackburn where I grew up, there was no other black children.

To describe something as being black and white means it is clearly defined. Yet when your ethnicity is black and white, the dichotomy is not that clear. In fact, it creates a grey area.

I'm very confident about being on the grid in Australia in 2003.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward community service. As much as the white sororities claim that's the case in their groups, it's not really so. White sororities focus on relationships.

I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.

The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

It wasn't until 'Hamilton' that I began to be considered an actor of color, and I really don't know what to make of it.

The truth of the matter is, I am a black woman, and I am an actor. I don't try to get caught up in being a black actor; I'm just an actor who is a black woman. It's not about forgetting that you're black, but you don't need to be hammered over the head, either; it just is what it is.

Race legend Richard Petty's first career win came in a Convertibles competition at the Columbia Speedway in South Carolina in 1959.

Success is actually a short race—a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

This country is so stupid. Only spoiled white people could let something so good get so bad. I

Why do you know so much old rap? Because I'm white.

I'm just surprised because most of the fantasy worlds in movies and books are lily white. -Well, that's just crazy!

Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.

You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos