Quotes About Race

I never felt so lonesome Since I was born black.

They could not understand that there is some few people in the world who do good without being asked. It were a hot day, I were a little boy, and ice-cream cones are always good. And that man just looked at me and thought I would like one--which I did. That is one reason why I do not hate all white folks today because some white folks will do good without being asked or hauled up before the Supreme Court to have a law promulgated against them.

As I Grew Older - 1901-1967 It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun,— My dream. And then the wall rose, Rose slowly, Slowly, Between me and my dream. Rose slowly, slowly, Dimming, Hiding, The light of my dream. Rose until it touched the sky,— The wall. Shadow. I am black. I lie down in the shadow. No longer the light of my dream before me, Above me.

Anne burst out, "You know, I think I'd like to paint you." Michael said, "Oh, I say now, that would be lovely! He's so utterly Negro.

My boss is white," said Simple. "Most bosses are," I said.

But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white," hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful"?

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.

The emphasis—and money—placed on demonstrating "merit" on applications, rather than on nurturing a student's potential during the college years, results in institutions that lack meaningful race and class diversity.

Until you, Tavia, there has never been a female Breed. Not one, not ever. Our race began thousands of years ago, when a ship carrying a group of biologically advanced otherworlders crash-landed on this planet.

We know You love us. We love You, too. I mean, six, seven thousand years from now . . . won't make no difference, will it? Everybody gonna be so mixed up by then that far in the future that they all gonna be the same color by then, ain't they?

Howard then made Seabiscuit's entry for the Santa Anita Handicap. He left the jockey space blank.

With heads thrown back, legs pumping out of sync, Louie and Lash drove for the tape. With just a few yards remaining, Lash began inching up, drawing even. The two runners, legs rubbery with exhaustion, flung themselves past the judges in a finish so close, Louie later said, "you couldn't put a hair between us.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

the Indians simply outran them. "They made such enormous strides that with all our running and jumping we could not overtake them," Pigafetta noted.

By way of contrast, English warships, or galleons, were "race built

As the two young men prowled through the black neighborhood, they were not looking for any black man in particular. Their victim could be young, old, fat, skinny, weak, strong. They didn't care. They weren't afraid. They had a gun. All that mattered was that he was the right color.

Everyone sees race, Lex," said Moody. "The only difference is who pretends not to.

Maybe at birth everyone should be given to a family of a different race to be raised. Maybe that would solve racism once and for all.

The average American, one judge ruled, cannot reasonably be expected to visually distinguish between various varieties of persons of Asian origin. As if they were types of apples, or breeds of dogs; as if those persons of Asian origin did not count as average Americans themselves.

Now, when Marilyn says this—If she were a white girl—it proves what James has feared all along. That inside, all along, she'd labeled everything. White and not white. That this thing makes all the difference in the world.

Being a PAO, the authorities reminded everyone, was not itself a crime. PACT is not about race, the president was always saying, it is about patriotism and mindset.

If she were a white girl . . . none of this would ever have happened.

Now we're starting to be aware of the problems with not "seeing race": ignoring race means ignoring longstanding problems and history, as well as ignoring important aspects of a person's identity.

Lei odia il piacere degli altri, Clelia, questo è il fatto. Lei Clelia fa male. Lei odia se stessa. E pensare che è nata di razza. Faccia allegria intorno a sé, smetta il broncio. ll piacere degli altri è anche suo...