Quotes About Race

Because I was assigned female at birth and I am light-skinned, white, I think people hear my message more than they hear it from someone who was assigned male at birth and is a person of colour.

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

I truly love my hair but my skin colour was something I couldn't get my head around.

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background.

When you're a comedian, you're another race. You're friends with all these comedians who are white, black and brown. It's us against the world.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

Any comedic roles that I've gone out for usually end up going to a white woman or a gay man instead.

I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what they're going through, which is different because they're almost made to be in another world.

I don't want to sit there and compare to things I've gone through to what the Black player, the African-American player, goes through.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

I'm a white guy in a black sport. I really forget about it until someone asks me about it. I'm simply competing in a sport that I love.

Competition matters.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

To me, everything's competition.

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.

We are competitors.

Politics is like a running race and a true champion will run the race with the competitors and emerge victoriously.

I'm not a docile, complacent person when it comes to racial aggressions.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

We were from a predominantly white area, my dad was black and my mum was white, so that had its complications.

Unfortunately, Republicans are too often tone-deaf to the concerns of black Americans.