Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why must we always talk about race anyway? Can't we just be human beings? And Professor Hunk replied - that is exactly what white privilege is, that you can say that. Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Chi McBride

If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

William Williams

We are a half-mad race, and what we say is not to be trusted.

Jon Stewart

No matter what your race, creed or sexual preference, there is a word that people use to describe you that is very nasty. It's what we all have in common. That, and masturbation.

John Roberts

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.

Ashwin Sanghi

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

This race will be a little emotional. This will be a really special race for them. They will want to go out in style, but Stanford will be tough.

This race should give us some confidence, ... We know we can run with them (Mountain View). When we are at full-strength, we'll be right in the mix.

This race is the kickoff of the foundation. It's their big day.

Beah Richards

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

Avery Brundage

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

Ashley Montagu

The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.

Ashley Judd

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant.

Arthur Cayley

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Bruce Springsteen

Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

Jamie Foxx

Every single thing in my life is built around race.

James Weldon Johnson

I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

James Weldon Johnson

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.

James Weldon Johnson

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

Cale Yarborough

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.

Cathy Freeman

Twenty seconds before a race, there's absolute focus. The key thing is to achieve relaxation, but at the same to have absolute total control. You've got to find the balance between being totally ready to go and being really at peace with yourself as well.

Casey Stoner

There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and thats what I enjoy the most.

Carl Lewis

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

Bill Nye

There really is no such thing as race...

Bertolt Brecht

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

Bernard Goldberg

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

Cass Sunstein

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

Charlie Kimball

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of the diabetes community, I may not have gotten back into the race car after my diagnosis in October 2007.

Charlie Munger

Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.