Best My Race Quotes

48 My Race quotes by 41 unique authors

I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand,… — Marcus Garvey
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. — Michael Jackson
I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win. — Mark Spitz
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the… — James Joyce
My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent… — Zora Neale Hurston
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe. — Barack Obama
I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God… — John Piper
Away! Away! The spell of arms and voices: the white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black arms of tall ships… — James Joyce
I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand… — Zora Neale Hurston
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this… — Malcolm X
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that… — Booker T. Washington
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was… — Issa Rae
Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was… — Warren Moon
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do. — Octavia Butler
I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer… — Elizabeth Warren
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for… — Gabriela Mistral
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a… — Ida B. Wells
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. — Constance Baker Motley
I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds. — Bonnie Blair
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to… — John Piper
Just a little thing but it was higher hope, He has emotions just under the status hope, Insulted me by saying that he was an… — Unknown Author
I went to get a loan and they asked my race, so I wrote human inside the space. — Beastie Boys
Im very connected to my community and I want black people to know that I havent abandoned them because Ive had a child with a… — Halle Berry

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