logo

Quotes About Race

The white race will either inhabit planet earth in totality, or it will not survive at all. There will be no in between in our future.
~ Unknown
It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.
~ Helen Suzman
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals
~ Carl Lewis
I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.
~ Bishop Desmond Tutu
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.
~ Joseph Conrad
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
~ William Butler Yeats
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ Lily Tomlin
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.
~ Senator John Kerry
Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.
~ Wilma Rudolph
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
~ Maya Angelou
Black woman hard to laugh, for she must keep it secret and quiet-like for all white man suspicious of negro mirth.
~ Marlon James
But some fire don't go out, they go quiet under the ash, waiting for one little dry stick to feed. So the white man sleep with one eye open, waiting for the fire next time. That fire coming.
~ Marlon James
see how the white womens goin' look and hear how white womens laugh in the colonies. She think of white flesh and black flesh, that really be brown flesh by blood and the two flesh melt into one flesh that don't know colour. Then Lilith wonder if she dreaming because dreaming is one thing God never allow negro to do.
~ Marlon James
Everybody know that condom and birth control was white man scheme to kill off black people, but he don't care.
~ Marlon James
And all I could think of is Oh Lord here it comes, another white man about to tell me about how much he enjoyed Ocho Rios, but would have enjoyed it so much more if it weren't for all the poverty. And the country is so beatiful and the people so friendly and even in all this tragedy everybody still manages a smile especially the bombor'asscloth children.
~ Marlon James
Seem that if baby get left in manger he would scratch up, bite up and dead by the third day. But white people think this be the greatest thing. The baby grow up and they kill him, and white people think this be even greater. It make plenty sense that white people would get so much mirth and joy out of this 'cause nobody kill for fun like backra.
~ Marlon James
Homer whiter than plenty white man, it seem. But nothing make a nigger more black than whip scars. Lilith don't want none of it.
~ Marlon James
Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.
~ Marlon Wayans
Let 'em call me a racist. It don't make any difference. Whole heap of folks in this country feel the same way I do. Race is what's gonna win this thing for me.
~ Unknown
O, dicho más brutal: ¿por qué no toleramos la desigualdad por géneros o razas pero sí por riqueza?)
~ Unknown
During oral arguments, Howard Wimberley, assistant attorney general for Texas, presented the state's two-class theory, which had been used in previous trials to explain why Mexican Americans were not called for jury duty. Wimberley argued that in Texas there were only two races, Blacks and whites, and only Blacks on occasion needed the government's protection from hostile whites.
~ Unknown
The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
~ Martin Amis
The most beautiful women in the world were African.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: ' Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities .
~ Martin Gardner