Race Quotes · Page 291

Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

— Kiese Laymon

We live in a relativistic culture, where people are more con- cerned with being liked than being truthful. In A Sweet and…

— Francis Chan

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

In people, I don't see race, color, or religion. I see individuals, humans, beautiful people, opinions, even when they are told they…

— Christopher Timmerman

I race to win, not to please people

— Bernard Hinault

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we,…

— Eleftherios Venizelos

And if I were the president, I'd go out there and I'd emphasize the things I have done, and I'd say, 'Some…

— Michael Bloomberg

I care deeply about 'Drag Race' and drag. It's my life and it changed my life.

— Alaska

What [Donald] Trump has done, even though he is not the most conservative figure in this race, is he`s turned the play…

— Donald Trump

I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles…

— Antonia Thomas

As a woman people judge you on your looks regardless of the fact you're just there to race.

— Susie Wolff

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't see why everybody wants a white iPhone. Everyone knows the black one runs faster.

— Anonymous

It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race...Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

— Mellody Hobson

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose…

— Pam Grier

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb…

— Jack London

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

— Mary McCarthy

I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in…

— Henny Youngman

Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food…

— Patricia Stephens Due

I'd rather run a gutsy race, pushing all the way and lose, than run a conservative race only for a win.

— Alberto Salazar

If I wanted to learn how to race a speed car, I'm not going to go and race with Formula One drivers.…

— Jay Shetty

Being under the lights makes any race track that much better.

— Ricky Stenhouse Jr

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are…

— Joss Whedon

... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the…

— Maria W. Stewart