Quotes About Race

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

He was well aware that Ruben was earning good money, a white man's wage, at the mine. It was a widely known fact that upset some folk in town.

Jed Lamb might have been a junkman, but he was also a true white man.

White people aren't ready for trust. But some days we have no choice but to take a chance with them.

Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white?

She was a young woman with that pink complexion which made Jimmy Chee wonder why the white men called Indians redskins.

Our dialogue about race is complex, unresolved, and will probably be endless; a thing to be enacted forever on our shaky, shattered, and traumatized national ground. It requires of us a belief in the willingness of others, and a trust that even our misunderstandings will not be intentionally misunderstood.

Everywhere, it seemed, I had to explore two pasts and two presents; one white, one black, separate and unreconcilable. The past had poisoned the present and the present, in turn, now poisoned remembrance of things past.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody can reach it.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.

He had his very own "little white girl" without taking the hit of her actually being white.

Clint never could get into the split personality thing, acting and talking one way around family and friends, then turning into someone your own mama wouldn't recognize just to have a conversation with some white folks. He'd never seen the advantage to it. Once Clint had learned that all white people didn't smell like the Downy fabric softener he'd seen in those commercials, he lost the enchantment. He felt no urge to try to impress them.

The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer.

We may deny the existence of ethnonationalism, detest it, condemn it. But this creator and destroyer of empires and nations is a force infinitely more powerful than globalism, for it engages the heart. Men will die for it. Religion, race, culture and tribe are the four horsemen of the coming apocalypse.

A conquering race, in the place of that conquest, is rarely amiable; the conquerors pay less obviously than the conquered, but perhaps in time they pay even more heavily, in the loss of the humane qualities. Hard, arrogant, profit-seeking adventurers flock to the spoil, and the natives, though outwardly civil, contemplate them with a resentment mingled with contempt, while at the same time respecting the face of conquest – acknowledging their greater strength.

What is the purpose of these dolls?" "To play with, of course." "Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?

why Europe grew so powerful. Was it something about the geography of Europe? Was it that Europeans are somehow racially superior? Was it their religion? The answer (or at least the proximate cause) may be that the Europeans rode on the crest of a powerful new idea: allowing those who made a lot of money to keep it.

pay her back for imaginary wrongs, or real wrongs she had not personally done him but had done representatively because she was of her race and of her colour, and he could not in his simple rage any longer distinguish between individual and crowd.

The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race by Len Kasten.

You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know." Joyce