Civil rights Quote by Paul Beatty

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

— Barack Obama

My family, friends and community members rarely spoke about race relations, or how people from different races have different experiences growing up in America.…

— Joe Thomas

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

— Jordan Peele

We need a more substantive conversation around race relations and the way people of color are treated.

— Megan Rapinoe

I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad history in…

— O. J. Mayo

I think it's really progressive to talk about race in relationships. I think there is so much room for that, and there needs to…

— Jessica Williams

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

— Amitava Kumar

Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter…

— Barack Obama

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

— Clint Eastwood

What I remember about race relations in the 1990s is that you showed your awareness by saying you didn't see race, that you were…

— Celeste Ng

Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that…

— Jonathan Coleman

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it…

— Anthony Daniels