Quotes About Race

It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.

If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African.

If you want to know how much you love God, check your Tolerance level regarding Race and Religion.

If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.

I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

White women are a problem, that's, you know - we all live with that.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.