Events Quote by James Earl Jones

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

— Ashley Montagu

There are still horrible things that go on because of the myth of race, but we don't have to succumb totally.

— John Edgar Wideman

“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.”

— Debby Irving

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that…

— Chris Hughton

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

— Jordan Peele

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

— Jordan Peele

“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

Because, if I'm honest, people in the white world might be appalled, but in the black world, they're making myths out of me. And…

— John Singleton

Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining…

— Robin DiAngelo

In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist…

— Florence King

Racism is a perceptive error, and what you actually have to do is you have to get into spaces where you're meeting people and…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

— Francis Lieber