Quotes About Race

I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

Since 1980, Republican shredding of the social safety net has disproportionately hit women, particularly women of colour.

Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

You can't understand what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson, you can't understand what happened to Eric Garner in New York City, without understanding this narrative of racial difference that was created during the slave years.

None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

The 'White Establishment' never liked me. I have worked for 'White Establishment' newspapers and television networks.

I was raised in Nigeria, and my mother is white, but I never saw her as white, not until I came to America. She was just my mother. She didn't really have a color.

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

I knew I was Yoruba and Nigerian for the first 9 years of my life. I did not become conscious of my color and all that came with it until I moved to the United States with my family.

We know that gun violence disproportionately affects Black people in this country, and that was no exception with my son Jordan.

If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you.

As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.

it's white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction. History. It has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that's the master narrative speaking. "This is beautiful, this is lovely, and you're not it.

and sometimes on rainy nights you see an old white woman who maybe you'd really care about except that you're a young Black woman whose job it is to kill maim or seriously make her question the validity of her existence

and as soon as i die i hope everyone who loved me learns the meaning of my death which is a simple lesson don't do what you do very well very well and enjoy it it scares white folk and makes black ones truly mad

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization. As

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

There was a good Constitution in America, and he had read it carefully. It gave liberty, but he recognized that it worked only for people in skins whose color ran from pink to tan. People with darker skins might as well have fur or feathers.

en un extremo hay sociedades indígenas, tribales, que tratan de detener la carrera hacia el desastre. En el otro extremo, las sociedades más ricas y poderosas de la historia del mundo, como Estados Unidos y Canadá, corren a toda velocidad para destruir el entorno lo antes posible.

Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.

This conclusion invented a political perspective that's become omnipresent in any two-person race but still felt original in 2000: Again and again, Bush was described as the candidate voters 'would rather have a beer with.' It was a very nineties way to think about a problem.

Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The

Now hitting on all sixteen cylinders, the Beatles bolted back to the woodshed for The Beatles, a blandly designed masterwork that could inspire any reasonable California citizen to launch a race war.