Quotes About Race

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.

What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.

The problem with a lot of movies when it comes to race is that they want to be moral, and they want to make the audience feel good about something that a lot of people don't feel good about.

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't wanted.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

That's what [Abraham] Lincoln said. "The white man will always be above the black man. I don't want them to run for office, or have political rights, or vote. I want them to go back to Africa."

I'm just honest. They [asians] don't want to see black people generally in their movies.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running.

A CORKSCREW PLUME of dust raced across the basin, heading deeper into the trackless desert of the Pan'potsun Odhan.

Jacqueline Jones argues, "Race signifies neither a biological fact, nor a primal prejudice, and it lacks the coherence of a robust political ideology; rather, it is a collection of fluid, contingent mythologies borne of (among other imperatives) fighting a war, assembling a labor force, advancing the designs of demagogues, organizing a labor union, and preserving voting and public schooling as privileges reserved for some, rather than as rights shared by all.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

He was Caradorean, son of a conquered race. He was little more than a slave. Not like Val. Val had surrendered himself entirely to Magravandias, in body and soul. Now he was no longer the boy with whom Khaster had explored the forests above Norgance. Now he was the Dragon Lord, part of the emperor's inner circle, where Khaster would never be invited.

Had some ancient race preyed upon humanity in some way, so that certain conditions of death now echoed those old legends?

Great moving cities prowl in the Flatlands. They are drawn along lines of glittering stones, which are planted by a race of people who, steeped in their own mystery, direct the motions of the city. The cities are vast, huge leviathans that carve a deep wound into the earth.

I have never worked on race and ethnicity as a kind of subcategory; I have always worked on the whole social formation which is racialised