Been Quote by Jonathan Coleman

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

— Barack Obama

It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

— Norah Vincent

Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in…

— Mellody Hobson

We're just at a point in regard to race relations, we're at a tipping point in America. It's a crucial time. It's sad, honestly,…

— Andrew Hawkins

Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

— Glenn Ligon

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

— Steve Prefontaine

Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with…

— Montel Williams

Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some…

— Barack Obama

“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

Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken…

— Jonathan Coleman

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty