Doe Quote by Nell Irvin Painter

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

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come…

— Booker T. Washington

I'm passionate about my race.

— Latto

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.

— Michaela Coel

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority.

— H. L. Mencken

I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of…

— Oprah Winfrey

I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.

— Roxane Gay

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably…

— Charles Darwin

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew…

— Wyatt Cenac