Quotes about race
race ideas black
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud. Saul Williams
race giving people
How often in life are you going to find your mate and that mate happens to be your same exact age and happens to have had the same life experiences to match where you are in our life so you guys can meet perfectly and give society what it wants? It just doesn't happen that way. Some people evolve at 24, some people are 60 and are still evolving. So why are we stopping these great connections based on age, or race or colour or whatever, gender, whatever? You meet who you meet and you connect because of your life experience. Sandra Bullock
race defining
Beating John Landy was my defining race. Roger Bannister
race class shoes
When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief. Roger Ebert
race black trying
I have compromised down the line. I've disliked it intensely in the old days when you were trying to talk race relations and they would not allow you to talk about the legitimacies of race relations. In the old days, you didn't talk about black, you talked about Eskimo or American Indian, and the American Indian was assumed not to be a problem area. Rod Serling
race united-states wonderful
The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race. Robert Wyatt
race white mind
I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing. Sarah Kane
race world partners
We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race. Sarah Ruhl
race ideas religion
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality. Robert Green Ingersoll
race light joy
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul.
race perfection damnation
The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.
race mind world
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
race car training
I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. Rodger Ward
race vanishing trouble
The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals. Robert E. Sherwood
race world want
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly Roman about him. ... The lesser races must be civilized and they must be punished... Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. Robert Fisk
race sun action
When you're doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you're going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It's a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day. Wes Anderson
race stories corporations
The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us. Tom Robbins
race years two
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later. Tom Kristensen
race natural-instinct avoiding
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. Steve Redgrave
race class piano
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift. Steve Harvey
race firsts remember
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. Usain Bolt
race ethnicity should-have
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. Susana Martinez
race people want
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations. Stephen Lang
race islands trying
Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape...Sending humans to other planets ... will shape the future of the human race in ways we don't yet understand, and may determine whether we have any future at all. Stephen Hawking
race september-11 survival
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
race development ends
The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
race engineering justice
It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals [with the help of genetic engineering]. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans.
race looks world
What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful. Stephan James
race musical earth
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. Stendhal
race today lasts
In the human race today, you came last. Spike Milligan
race psychics development
The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. Sigmund Freud
race humanity development
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
race civilization unity
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.