Attention Quote by Jacques Barzun

When people ask about the aspect of race in the work, they are looking for very simple or easy answers. Part of it is…

— Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Implicit bias - our subconscious associations of race - permeates everything that we do. And we must pursue systemic accountability to fix it.

— Opal Tometi

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.…

— Steven Pinker

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there…

— Issa Rae

Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

— Jessica Williams

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Growing up as a mixed-race kid myself, when you are in the middle of it and you're young...you don't think about it consciously. It's…

— Matt de la Pena

“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

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which…

— Carter G. Woodson

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all…

— Paul Beatty