Quotes About Race

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

Have you heard his new song? 'Cause he thinks he's a black man now.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

There will always be somebody more successful, more beautiful, more talented. You have to realize, you're not running their race. You're running your race.

O passing angel, speed me with a song, a melody of heaven to reach my heart and rouse me to the race and make me strong.

The world wants to define me by my mammary glands and melanin. It is just fascinating that Michael Mann has never been asked what it is like to be a white male filmmaker.

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.

It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

But the more she talked, the less was I reassured, and I stopped her by asking: "Well, mother, am I white? Are you white?" She answered tremblingly: "No, I am not white, but you—your father is one of the greatest men in the country—the best blood of the South is in you—" This suddenly opened up in my heart a fresh chasm of misgiving and fear

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive. My heart turned bitter within me. I could understand why Negroes are led to sympathize with even their worst criminals and to protect them when possible.

And this is the dwarfing, warping, distorting influence which operates upon each and every colored man in the United States. He is forced to take his outlook on all things, not from the viewpoint of a citizen, or a man, or even a human being, but from the viewpoint of a colored man.

I can imagine no more dissatisfied human being than an educated, cultured, and refined colored man in the United States.