Quotes About Race

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

The capitan...one of those tall, arrogant, acerbically handsome niggers that most of the planet feels inferior to. Also one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

Only a bitch of color comes to Harvard to get pregnant. White women don't do that. Asian women don't do that. Only fucking black and Latina women. Why go to all the trouble to get into Harvard just to get knocked up? You could have stayed on the block and done that shit.

She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.

That's the kind of culture I belong to: people took their child's black complexion as an ill omen.

You know, she said finally, we colored folks talk plenty of shit about loving our children but we really don't. She exhaled. We don't, we don't, we don't.

It's disheartening, me and Magda together. We don't look like a couple. When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage. When I smile folks check their wallets.

While our mothers rode the escalators up to baggage claim, Jacob and I took the stairs, racing each other. "No fair," I said, as we started. "You've got longer legs." Jacob glanced over his shoulder at me, grabbed Mom's spillover purchases that I had stuffed into one of his extra carry-ons. "Take your excuses somewhere else, Trouble Magnet.

They're calling being black a look? How progressive of them.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

No, you can see it in his eyes. I know he looks white but if you look at him closely you can see some coloured blood. He hates it, that's why he's so fucked up. I mean, imagine being nearly white but not quite. Know what I mean?

His deepest fear was that its invention would inspire a deadly nuclear arms race between the West and the Soviet Union. To prevent this, he insisted, it was imperative that the Russians be told about the existence of the bomb project, and be assured that it was no threat to them.

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

The intellects of the Harlem Renaissance realized that before whites would see blacks as equals, first blacks had to see themselves that way- and not try to pretend to be white or adopt white ideals of beauty.

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.

My consciousness is a process, and that includes my relationship with my husband. His being white doesn't make me any less black or invested in black issues, the same way him being a man doesn't make me any less of a feminist.

Formula 1 will always have high and strong investment. Who can't make these investments will race in other series.