Quotes About Race

It's almost like an optical illusion, 'The Hobbit.' You look at the book, and it is really thin, and you could make a relatively thin film as well. What I mean by that is that you could race through the story at the speed that Tolkien does.

It's something most people of color and most women have been burdened with their whole lives, having to suppress your natural emotion to make everybody else feel comfortable. Repeatedly having to do that takes its toll.

That consensus was far from complete. In a region where most, and the poorest, farmers were African American, they were ultimately excluded from the Farmers' Alliance and had to build a separate and terribly unequal version, the Colored Alliance. The Farmers' Alliance forced the Knights of Labor to abandon its rule welcoming members of all races as the price of a merger

For while white conservatives use government assistance copiously--whether it be Social Security, or mortgage tax relief, low-interest federal college loans or Medicare--in their political discussions they tend to define their benefits as not being "welfare," in contrast to the somehow less noble assistance provided to their black and brown neighbors.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

If we want to understand the Black experience of the race massacre, we have to start and end with how Black survivors narrated the terror of what occurred." – Scott Ellsworth, Historian

Q: What did the tomato do after falling behind in the race? A: Ketchup.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith. (Heb. 12:1–2)

Time is chasing after all of us.

I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.

The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

Frederick Douglass ran a primary campaign against [Abraham Lincoln] the second time around, in 1864. They hated him. Why'd they hate him? Because he said things like "I believe in white supremacy."

Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

I didn't elect [Barack] Obama because he's a black; I voted for Obama because he was the right person at the time.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time.

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.