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“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they wish to…

— Nicholas Wade

Racial identity is chosen and given. It is as much a product of the world's perception of you as it is of your own…

— Ritchie Torres

I do identify with being black, and if people don't identify me that way, that's their issue. I'm happy to challenge people's understanding of…

— Rashida Jones

You could paper the globe with evidence that there are demonstrable cognitive and physical disparities between what are crudely called human "races." But you…

— Jim Goad

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the…

— Jenny Han

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

— J. Philippe Rushton

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human…

— Dan Aykroyd

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people…

— J. Philippe Rushton

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which…

— Carter G. Woodson

Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for evil purposes.

— Francis Lieber

The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or…

— Wentworth Miller

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In…

— Stephen Jay Gould