“She didn't tell him white folks couldn't love the same as coloreds. She couldn't love the same neither though, cuz more than… — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
The share of Americans who say race relations are bad in this country is the highest it's been in decades, much of… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
“There was a Race Relations Act, supported by socialists and conservatives alike, which made the incitement of racial hatred a crime but… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely.… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and… — Caroline Leavitt Copy Share Image
We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still.… — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
A key text for me is James Baldwin's essays. And, in particular, his essay Stranger in the Village. It's a text that… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me… — Jon Sindell Copy Share Image
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Only men of moral and mental force, of a patriotic regard for the relationship of the two races, can be of real… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
“The things white folks put people through--my god, cruel in ways I just can't even reconcile. Should be ashamed for a thousand… — Cebo Campbell Copy Share Image
“One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“How's that training coming along, Griff? Good old Max says you're a natural." Turner frowned. Any time a white man asked you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
We have many companies, I say pouring back into America. I think that's going to have a huge, positive impact on race… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“But no sooner had he walked to the city wall than the monkeys pulled him back, telling him that he did not… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“In the midst of a national reckoning on race relations in America something extraordinary is happening. We are building a winning edge against… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
So, to say Barack Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president. That's… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look… — Najib Razak Copy Share Image
“It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher… — Kelly J. Cogswell Copy Share Image
“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
“It’s a horrible world. White people try to tell us that everything will be just fine when we go to heaven. My… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“There’s something lyrical about an eternal truth. It’s a graceful riff. A free-flowing melody. Light and airy, it floats all around you.… — David Mutti Clark Copy Share Image
“The liberal philosophy of race relations emphasized the stigma of segregation and the hypocrisy of a government that celebrates freedom and equality… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
“Acknowledging that all our land was stolen from Native people feels like too great a burden, so we create an alternative reality… — Daniel Hill Copy Share Image
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men… — Vida Blue Copy Share Image
“I asked [my grandfather] if there would ever be an America in which white Americans were not actively working to keep themselves… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I think if we continue to create jobs at levels that I'm creating jobs, I think that's going to have a tremendous… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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