Quotes About Race

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody's property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.

Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.