Race Quotes

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. A...

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, inst...

We got a call from across the street that a black woman had broken into this house.”“And you were go...

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

There had been three of them once: James, then a sister named Fonsiba, then Lucas, children of Aunt ...

The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, o...

This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the gr...

Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl'...

There could be something wrong with me because I see Negroes neither better nor worse than any other...

He has only heard what I felt.

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all...

I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial pro...

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankin...

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumptio...

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than bl...

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Fever...

Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget t...

First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like ...

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Demographics is destiny

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which r...

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come ...

Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of ...

They, they, they. That was the problem with people like Joyce. They talked about the richness of the...

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, p...

The whiteness celebrated in Paris is Burning is not just any old brand of whiteness but rather that ...

Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger . . . It...

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’...

Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black ...

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in...

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

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the ...

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one anot...

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization...

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever h...

Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply ...

I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audie...

In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile—no black, w...

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitme...

There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with...

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ours...

We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial probl...

Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already b...

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, ra...

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ours...

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the ...

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one anot...

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization...

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever h...

Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply ...

I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audie...

In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile—no black, w...

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitme...

There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with...

We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial probl...

Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already b...

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, ra...

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the ...

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one anot...

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization...

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever h...

Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply ...

I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audie...

In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile—no black, w...

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitme...

There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with...

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ours...

We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial probl...

Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already b...

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, ra...

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the ...

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one anot...

Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization...

Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever h...

Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply ...

I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audie...

In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile—no black, w...

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitme...

There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with...

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ours...

We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial probl...

Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already b...

How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, ra...

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the ...

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one anot...