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Quotes About Race

Run, damn you!
~ Rachel Caine
The big media blitzes almost exclusively happen for missing children, teen girls, and adult women. White and pretty, preferably. It's rare to see the major networks covering a missing young woman of color as a priority.
~ Rachel Caine
And almost never young men of any race, even though they can and do go missing too.
~ Rachel Caine
Human beings could hate to the point of killing whom they hated, based on class and race and politics and religion and mere envy.
~ Dean Koontz
being the mother of the new race, for she will bear many offspring, children who will be formed in Shacket's image, blessed with his superior genes. They won't be merely children, but demigods incorporating the diverse attributes of many species.
~ Dean Koontz
If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same, that we share this broken world with predators who were once beings of light and promise, but transformed themselves into creatures that worship the outer dark and wish the world to be one vast graveyard.
~ Dean Koontz
If envious humanity sought godlike power and fell from grace, it might be true that some race before us did the same
~ Dean Koontz
Not all the suburbs are white." "Name one that isn't. Just one." She tries. "Um . . ." He waits. "I can feel your look," she says. "It's very smug." "Our suburbs," he says, "are designed to escape the melting pot. But now they're telling all the people they left behind precisely how they should go about rubbing elbows.
~ Dennis Lehane
They didn't think black people were necessarily good, don't get me wrong, they just thought everyone—regardless of what color they were—was probably an asshole. And to say you were less of an asshole because your skin was lighter was reprehensible to them. It just made you a bigger asshole.
~ Dennis Lehane
Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of "racial tensions" is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.
~ Dennis Prager
I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the other. When members of every family are one of those others, such hatreds will become, finally, impossible.
~ Dennis Prager
One was a full-blooded Negro, the other mixed, with pale skin, thick lips and crinkly hair.
~ Unknown
What a profound scientific discovery that blacks, Coloreds (usually people of mixed race), and Indians were in fact human beings, who had the same concerns and anxieties and aspirations. They wanted a decent home, a good job, a safe environment for their families, good schools for their children, and almost none wanted to drive the whites into the sea. They just wanted their place in the sun. Everywhere else elections are
~ Desmond Tutu
There was always a struggle with being Asian and not being Asian enough. It's going to be down to me to own my race.
~ Henry Golding
When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.
~ Sadiq Khan
There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.
~ Apollonia Kotero
I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
~ Larry Bird
It always felt that there were a lot of shows where there was a white lead female, who was attractive, and then I was being offered the kooky friend. And it was just like, 'Why can't this be the other way around?'
~ Lolly Adefope
I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with this character.'
~ Frankie Faison
Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.
~ David Olusoga
My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.
~ John Gourley
That doll looks more like a black man than me.
~ Lorrie Fair
I think Donald Trump might be racist.
~ Sarah Cooper