Time Quote by Anonymous

“Racial identity can be condemned, fought, ignored, or cultivated, but it is unrealistic for a society to pretend it does not exist.”

— Jared Taylor

“A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.”

— William Saroyan

“Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.”

— Victoria E. Bynum

“I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason…

— Franz Boas

“In our multi-ethnic, relativist world it is difficult to understand the importance placed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on concepts like ethnic,…

— Alexandra Richie

“In the biological sense, race does not exist.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups--and with good reason. This is the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have…

— Ogden Nash

“I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings…

— Mark Twain

“Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race.”

— Susan Cain

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López