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Quotes About Race

I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.
~ Eric Holder
There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.
~ Franz Boas
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?
~ June Jordan
You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
~ Chris Rock
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
~ Ida B. Wells
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
~ Edward Thorndike
This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values
~ Steven Biko
If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.
~ Amiri Baraka
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
~ Aleister Crowley
Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.
~ Kanye West
Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.
~ Euripides
I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.
~ Romain Gary
Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.
~ Snoop Dogg
I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
~ Sam Rayburn
We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
~ Wesley Snipes
White men in Europe and the US are the beneficiaries of the single greatest affirmative action program in the history of the world; it is called the history of the world.
~ Michael Kimmel
I man don't come red, I come Black
~ Peter Tosh
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
~ Frantz Fanon
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
~ Barry Sheene
I took my obligations from white men, not from negroes. When I have to accept negroes as brothers or leave masonry, I shall leave it
~ Albert Pike
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
~ Mary Frances Berry
I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.
~ Josephine Baker
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
~ Bobby Fischer
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
~ Harper Lee