Quotes About Race

All is race - there is no other truth.

Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion , a truth , a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Gwen thinks Lazar disrespected her because she's black. And look I mean you're aware of my policy when it comes to that kind of situation. Your policy is 'What do I know about being black?' What do I know about being black?...

Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool.

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

they nevertheless suggested that evolutionary pressures were moving the human race toward ever-greater conformity.

The theory of eugenics postulated a crisis of the gene pool leading to the deterioration of the human race. The

They would never have dropped such a bomb on a white nation.

Barbecue brings people together, it always did and always will. Even in the sixties, during the race movements, barbecue was one of the things that held down the tensions. At a barbecue, it didn't matter who you were.

Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.

I think the O.J. Simpson case conjured all the paranoia, the racial anxiety, but also the racial fatigue that America has endured over the last half century.

Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquittal was such a historical event because it was the first time that I'd seen somebody who looked like me have the criminal justice system work in their favor rather than against.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history of the black community in this country. The history has been filled with incredible oppression and we really have to acknowledge that, to start to change the lens of how we see true equality.

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and policing ordinary behavior, they risk making things worse.