Quotes About Race

Right now we're in an arms race with the microbes, because, effectively, we're operating on the same scale that they are. The viruses are both our enemy and our arms manufacturer.

The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for many Americans, the first cultural common ground between black and white America that had been largely created by African-Americans.

Many politicians and preachers defended slavery, citing the Bible's approval of the practice, the inferiority of the African race, the value of preserving the southern way of life, and a paternalistic concern that freed slaves could not survive on their own.

Racial differences are largely adaptations to climate. Skin pigment was a sunscreen for the tropics, eyelid folds were goggles for the tundra. The parts of the body that face the elements are also the parts that face the eyes of other people, which fools them into thinking that racial differences run deeper than they really do.

They laid that foundation in what we now call humanism, which privileges the well-being of individual men, women, and children over the glory of the tribe, race, nation, or religion.

I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

I love the idea of biracial. I actually don't use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don't really care for it.

The Negro does not want love. He wants justice . . . I believe it would be better for the Negro's soul to be seared with hate than dwarfed by self-abasement.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that's the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.

I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.

My limo driver's white, my attorney black... 'Show me some love' like I'm Bernie Mac.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race.

Even though Jesus took on flesh for my sake, whiteness prevents me from knowing how to live in my own skin.

Mas os seios saltavam pontiagudos e as nádegas rolavam no vestido, porque os negros mesmo quando estão andando naturalmente é como se dançassem.

A los blancos hizo Dios, A los mulatos San Pedro, A los negros hizo el diablo Para tizón del infierno.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

Conversation is the socializing instrument par excellence, and in its style one can see reflected the capacities of a race.

Then she is beautiful beyond the Race of Women; if you won't let her go on with a certain Artifice with her eyes, and the Skill of Beauty, she will arm her self with her real Charms, and strike you with Admiration instead of Desire.

From the moment of independence from Britain, the United States was intentionally designed with a racial hierarchy dominated by the white race.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Country boys turned out to be the fittest, producing 4.8 percent more able-bodied draftees per 100,000 than city boys. Whites were 1.2 percent more physically qualified than blacks and native-born Americans 3.5 percent more than those foreign-born.