Quotes About Race

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

I believe all Southern liberals come from the same starting point--race. Once you figure out they are lying to you about race, you start to question everything.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

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

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

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

I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous impact - positive impact - on race relations.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Im not really about blackness, per se, but about blackness and whiteness, and what they mean and how they interact with one another and what power is all about.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

If ever there was a mobilizing energy, it is the millennial generation. So we have the power to turn out and even to win this race. Not to split the vote but to flip the vote.

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?