Goes on Quote by John Edgar Wideman

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

— Ashley Montagu

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

— James Earl Jones

Races and nations are thus ever ready to believe the worst of one another.

— Richard Le Gallienne

We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don't get beyond that by deciding not to talk…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

It was because of race that we didnt care much what happened to those people and imagined the worst possible things about them.

— Michelle Alexander

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and…

— Carter G. Woodson

In the 21st century, we must teach and learn from our history and swear never to repeat it, but we cannot use our past…

— Byron Donalds

Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.

— Murray Walker

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

— Jordan Peele

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one…

— Thomas Merton

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

— Barack Obama

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be…

— Charles Hamilton Houston