Race Quotes

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice po...

It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countryme...

I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, an...

They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some ...

In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she sh...

My Fellow Non-American Blacks: In America, You Are Black, Baby Dear Non-American Black, when you mak...

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone.

It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you ca...

The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to ...

White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening

he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch

Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, m...

You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really...

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go runn...

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that c...

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing...

Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the...

As they walked out of the store, Ifemelu said, “I was waiting for her to ask ‘Was it the one with tw...

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with...

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my '...

Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself s...

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must acce...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental reali...

Needless to say, this fragile experiment began by taking for granted the ugly conquest of Amerindian...

Only a visionary leadership that can motivate "the better angels of our nature," as Lincoln said, an...

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they woul...

The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to payche...

There are white people who know how to act politely to blacks, but deep down you know they're uncomf...

Luther had passed many a white church in his day, heard them singing their hymns and chanting their ...

Since neither black animosity nor the Left’s falsehood of “racial tensions” is based on the actual b...

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any o...

I don't race cars.

He had no racial feeling—not because he was superior to his brother civilians, but because he had ma...

But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" T...

P44- in tarzans clever little mind many thoughts revolved and back of these was his divine power of ...

p 18 - Hundreds of thousands of years ago our ancestors of the dim and distant past faced the same p...

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only r...

I like to race, not to do laps alone.

To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I wil...

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drive...

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try,...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who...

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cu...

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the ...

The Jews could be put down very plausible as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly enc...

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; ma...

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white...

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before ...

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registerin...

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an ar...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That's all. The rest you can deal with. It'...

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

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People giv...

Did you ever think our misfortune is directly related to your good fortune? Maybe the house your par...

True confession: The reason we don't talk about race is because we do not speak a common language.

What if, ladies and gentlemen, today I told you that anyone here who was born on a Monday, Tuesday, ...

Skin color doesn't make you different," Melody said. "We're all the same on the inside."The only peo...

Skin color doesn't make you different,' Melody said. 'We're all the same on the inside.' 'The only p...

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Technology is a means, not an end, no matter how brilliant it appears. How we use digital technology...

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be close...

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritio...

Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin...

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the rac...

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped shar...

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o...

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churche...

I’m not that kind of Indian,” Shanti said, her practiced smile never leaving her face, though it fal...

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was ...

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedo...

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm,...

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that sa...

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.He's a professional gambler; he...

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian h...

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward...

May I say just a word to those of you who are struggling against this evil. Always be sure that you ...

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be jud...