Quotes About Race

Our focus on melanin and people's skins - can't we talk about the diversity of ideology? Can't we look at people for their minds and what they can contribute? And I'd like to see us go more toward a respect for people's ability to contribute, and I actually want to get to a society where we disregard race.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

I'd love to have Michael Jackson [in my show] because he's black and white. So he would appeal to a universal demographic.

I love "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." That was like the only black book we read in high school...

I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

We can't slow up because of our love for democracy and our love for America. Someone should tell Faulkner that the vast majority of the people on this globe are colored.

I love doing things that are titillating. I think race can be very funny, and I think I'm very comfortable discussing it and bringing it up.

Ridiculing the high achievers is a way of regaining a sense of dignity and power in the face of their own disappointment and resentment.… When black students disproportionately experience low achievement in the context of disproportionate white high achievement, some emphasize their black authenticity, seeking dignity in racial solidarity."40

Half (50 percent) of White Americans agree that discrimination against Whites has become a problem equivalent to that against people of color. That percentage is even higher among working-class Whites (60 percent), with 39 percent of working-class Whites disagreeing

What is problematic is that the young people are operating with a very limited definition of what it means to be Black, based largely on cultural stereotypes.

Not surprisingly, of all racial groups, Whites are the most isolated. They are the most likely to live in racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin observed, "The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election."194

In 2013 more than 40 percent of adoptions in the US were transracial in nature, up from 28 percent in 2004.

The demographics race we're losing badly," said Senator Lindsey O. Graham (SC), adding, "We're not generating enough angry White guys to stay in business for the long term."52

White parents with White children, and Black parents, like his own, with Black children.

racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

More than sixty years after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, in every region of the country except the West, our public schools are more segregated today than they were in 1980, as measured by the percentage of all Black students who are attending schools that are "90–100% non-White," with the highest rates of school segregation in the Northeast.

It would seem that Gabriel enjoyed the favours a white man felt his due in an Asian culture. Where he traveled, he planted his seed.

Soon levees up and down the river were popping like buttons off a tight shirt. At Mounds Landing, Mississippi, a hundred black workers, kept at their posts by men with rifles, were swept to oblivion when a levee gave way. The coroner, for reasons unstated, recorded just two deaths.

Carleton Coon of the University of Pennsylvania suggested that some modern races have different sources of origin, implying that some of us come from superior stock to others.

The white people never looked at the Aborigines, and the Aborigines never looked at the white people. The two races seemed to inhabit separate but parallel universes. I felt as if I was the only person who could see both groups at once.