Quotes About Race

The wounds Mao sought to reopen had been inflicted during the nineteenth century when the future superpowers were grinding against each other like so many tectonic plates. The world as we know it was forming then, along fault lines of race, culture, and geography.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

Life is an endurance race that is always devouring your soul from the inside and out. In the end the race is nothing.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run. Impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Every man has his journey in life so run your race tirelessly until you win.

looked longingly at the characteristic features he shared with the Guermantes, a race that retains its individuality in a world by which it is not submerged, and in which it remains isolated in its divinely ornithological glory, for it seems to have sprung, in the age of mythology, from the union of a goddess and a bird.

that half of the human race in whom the curiosity the other half feels about the people it does not know is replaced by an interest in the people it does.

We lost because American justice is distorted by race. We lost because American justice is corrupted by celebrity.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life

Hail! United States of Africa-free! Country of the brave black man's liberty; State of greater nationhood thou hast won, A new life for the race is just begun.

melanin currently worth over $380 a gram more than gold that makes Black people black;

If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.

Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation; that the race can only be saved through political independence. Take away industry from a race, take away political freedom from a race and you have a slave race.

I was tall and biracial and sexy. But then there was Winnie. Her blond hair fell straight like a pane of glass. This was who my Jewish babysitter wanted?