Quotes About Race

Even this far into the game, Leigh was always surprised by how fantastic it was to be a white, wealthy man.

Look 'round you, bitch." He held out his hands. "They let a black man run this world 'fore they let a slit do.

God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.

Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

A van drew up in the centre of St. Helen's Square and disgorged several people dressed as zombies. The zombies proceeded to chase the men who were dressed as condoms. The condom men didn't seem very surprised, as if they were expecting to be chased by zombies. ("They pay for it," Bertie said.) Was this fun? Viola despaired. It was possible, she thought, that she had won the race to reach the end of civilization. There was no prize. Obviously.

In my experience—and I admit I didn't anticipate this—most blacks are delighted to have a 100-percent honest conversation with a white man about race.

You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

The common enemy is the white man.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin Then mister you're a better man than I

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.

I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.