Quotes About Race

I'm a Bravoholic, and I love 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

Drag Race' is a competition.

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.

Drew is the most competitive man on the planet. It doesn't matter if we're running to the car: he has to get there first.

I'm the only black man you ever met who couldn't dribble a basketball.

In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black.

There aren't a lot of roles for sleepy-eyed black dudes.

The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.

I even pretended years ago to be an African, a half-caste African, but because of my light eyes I did not get away with it, but I dyed my hair black.

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.

If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.

You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

I think it's impossible to be a young black male from the South, born to an era I was born in, and not have a clear sense of what race really means in the country.

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority.

As long as I can find hope in myself, there is hope for the future of the earth and the human race. If I fail to discover hope in myself, there is no hope for the earth or the human race. If I discover the goodness of human nature in myself, I can find it in the entire human race. If I fail to discover it in myself, I can't expect it from anyone else, either.

puente romano, mezclado entre la gente con un gran capazo de esparto en sus manos, tras una talanquera construida por el cabildo para obligar a los toros a que girasen y continuasen su carrera por la ribera del río, en cuyo margen se amontonaban los vecinos que, en caso de apuro, sólo podrían lanzarse al agua.

We all chanted one of Garvey's famous phrases together: Up, up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.

I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.