Affected Quote by Steve Prefontaine

A race is a work of art.

— Steve Prefontaine

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

It is not races but individuals that are noble and courageous or ignoble and craven or considerate or persistent or philosophical or reasonable. The…

— Edwin Way Teale

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

— J. Philippe Rushton

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

— Glenn Ligon

A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own…

— Anonymous

I think everybody focuses on race, but it's about a ton of things, and I just see these things as all interrelated and all…

— Paul Beatty

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

“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

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody…

— Ed Smith

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an…

— George A. Sheehan

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

— Thylias Moss