Quotes About Race

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

So we've never had a President of the United States ask anything of black citizens. And I think the reason for that is they've all felt that if they presume to do that, that they would be stigmatized as racist.

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.

I don't hate people who colour-blind cast, but I hate people who colour-blind cast and pretend that they're not, who pretend that these bodies on stage don't actually carry specific meaning.

Truth is, some of you aren't interested in a real conversation about race - you'd rather go on the attack for anyone that dares question your aggressive, divisive, and damaging agenda.

I am looked at as an African American guy because of the color of my skin. I am darker.

What I address is that I know that if I was some shades darker that I wouldn't be in the band. I think that was so important for me to address because it is true.

I believe that we have to be so race-conscious in this day and age.

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.

There's only eight cars that make the Daytona 500.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

It hasn't been for a lack of trying. But we really have to analyze in a deeper way why we have these problems - at least at the state level - electing an African-American.

In Shadow and Bone,' Alina's race is never specified. But that entire book is basically built on a white default. My life has never been entirely white or entirely straight, so I had to really step back and question why I'd chosen to write my first novel that way.

I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by that.

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place becomes black theatre. It's a little ridiculous.

I don't think being white defines who I am.

I am definitely a person of color.

I think, all too often, this society has too monolithic a definition of what a black American is.

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.