Quotes About Race

Women of color: if you're over 40 and you get fat, you will work. But if you're hot and over 40 and a woman of color, they don't know what to do with you.

What a lot of work it was to found the Roman race.

The disappearing time is the race of life

Life is a race against disappearing time

Your race is your diminishing life

Life is a race against time

Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

You don't really want to load up a whole lot, probably anything more than four hours before the race. I needed something to make me feel full, but I certainly didn't want it to make me feel stuffed.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

Ignorance is pitiful! If you are ignorant and stupid, you are sick - white, black, green, I don't care.

I've heard that I've gotten a lighter complexion, as if I've bleached my skin. I think that is so stupid and ludicrous. For those who want to bleach their skin, that's fine. I just didn't bleach mine. I'm a black woman. I don't want to be anything but a black woman.

I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of the United States was essentially an American sophistication, a national exercise in seeing what was not there and a refusal to see what was there - all to escape the stigma not of stupidity but of racism.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

When the scary subject of race is finally broached, kids want to talk and talk. It's very satisfying.