Quotes About Race

Race makes class hurt more.

Whiteness has privilege and power connected to it, no matter how poor you are.

And there is a paradox that many of you refuse to see: to get to a point where race won't make a difference, we have to wrestle, first, with the difference that race makes.

If our neighbors were white, they'd be victims of the same crime that plagues black folk. You are right, however, about those proportions. Ninety-three percent of black folk who are killed are killed by other black folk. But 84 percent of white folk who are killed are killed by other white folk. It's not necessary to modify the noun murder with the adjective black. It happens in the white world too.

Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust definitely came first.

For the history of our shared country, he argues, is the history of the way white people have tried both to recognize and to deny the humanity of their black neighbors.

They were diverse when it came to religion, age, economic status, philosophy, and race.

Human beings seem to have a need to attribute a sacred, or at least quasi-sacred, character to their political bodies, their rulers, and the actions of those entities. One tragic but frequent result is the sacralization of one's own people, whether nation, race, or tribe, and the demonization of the other. Out of such religion comes a culture of hatred and even violence

Tienen la sensación de que ellos son más víctimas de discriminación que las mujeres o las minorías raciales y se sienten oprimidos por las exigencias del discurso público de lo «políticamente correcto».

It is the sensibility of Ecclesiastes: "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

When it comes to hiring someone for a job, "discrimination on the basis of [political] party was much stronger than discrimination on the basis of race." An information economy segregates on ideas and not on genetics.

We had two dead white girls in a city that was six-sevenths black.

End affirmative action. We've had a black president, black cabinet members from both parties, a black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Later, there were several great white players, as there are today. But when it first matured, it was a black instrument. The saxophone was outside the system and the Negro was on the fringes of society. Together they found their voice." Evoking

Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration's joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at.

Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them less and less. ... ...in fact the media's attitude had changed over the last few months. No one talked about violence in the banlieues or race riots anymore. That was all passed over in silence.

Le capitalisme exploite. Et le capitalisme exploite les gens de couleur. Comme il exploite les hommes. Ou comme il exploite les femmes.

What difference does it make what color someone is? When somebody need help, they need help,

Simons selected a victim just like himself, namely a Coloured schoolboy between the ages of eight to fourteen. Symbolically he committed suicide when he killed that boy, for he was killing himself.

Boetie got involved with another woman of a different race, claiming that he never wanted to have sex with a white woman again in case she might be his lost sister.

I surmised he would be of the same race as the victims as a man of any other race in the company of a boy would have been immediately noticed by the public, who were very suspicious of such activities.

Suffering is not bad: It helps you very much. Do you know a novel about happiness? Or a film about happy people? We are a perverse race, only suffering interests us.

Idiots of the world listen up:forty is the end of the race, the deadline of deadlines and the point at which excuses are no longer permitted.

If you're Black in America doing politics, Republicans have a tendency to be existential enemies. And white Democrats are totally unreliable.