Quotes About Race

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth.

It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

An American Negro, however deep his sympathies, or however bright his rage, ceases to be simply a black man when he faces a black man from Africa.

Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.

There's no joy to be had seeing any black man, any black man taking a perp walk, let alone some of whom meant so much to us for so long.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Stupid f***ing white man.

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

From the very beginning I used sound business practices in everything I did. White businessman uses them to make money he's a genius. Black businessman uses them he's a crook. That's the way it is.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

It doesn't necessarily always come down to race in the music industry. It can be whoever has the most money, has the most power, and that's really the struggle - dealing with how crazy money is.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.