Famous Quotes - Tags - Race

  • ... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in... More
  • ... though we are nothing on this earth, I can tell you one thing: as beautiful as all sounds... More
  • ...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to... More
  • A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is... More
  • A race cannot be purified from without. More
  • A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white... More
  • A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very... More
  • Affirmative action was designed originally for “women and other minorities” but the phrase... More
  • American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of “Western... More
  • And I finally understood what a Negro is: both wind and sail at the same time, drummer and... More
  • At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke,... More
  • At the root of all these noble races, the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast prowling... More
  • Back home the black women are all beautiful More
  • Be a brave little Negress, a real drum with two sides, let life hit, bang at you, but always keep... More
  • But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking... More
  • During those years in Stamps, I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare. He was my first... More
  • Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the... More
  • For Afro-Americans, it could be argued that every year they’ve spent in this country since they... More
  • For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the... More
  • For the most part we stupidly confound one man with another. The dull distinguish only races or... More
  • For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced... More
  • From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof... More
  • He seemed to be of no particular race, or, in certain lights, to belong to some race that nobody... More
  • He touched the soil, caressing its grains between his fingers: “I am this: this earth here, and... More
  • His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For... More
  • I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be... More
  • I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races.... More
  • I know that I will always be expected to have extra insight into black texts—especially texts... More
  • I never wear my best coat on a journey, though perchance I could show a certificate to prove that... More
  • I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. More
  • I see the callus on his sole,
    The disappearing last of him
    And of his race starvation... More
  • I thought that God put me on the earth without asking if I wanted to be a woman or what color I... More
  • I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a... More
  • I was born in a Negro town. More
  • If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best... More
  • In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks... More
  • In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over... More
  • In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. More
  • Insanity is a contagious disease, so my healing belonged to everyone, and my victory was proof... More
  • It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the... More
  • It’s just like when you’ve got some coffee that’s too black, which means it’s too strong.... More
  • I’m a vegetarian. More
  • I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American... More
  • Lieutenant Hirth: The Eskimos are racially as low as Negroes.
    The Factor: What’s the matter... More
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation.... He and I grew up in the same... More
  • Men hear gladly of the power of blood or race. Every body likes to know that his advantages... More
  • Met face to face, these Indians in their native woods looked like the sinister and slouching... More
  • Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere.... More
  • No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America—there are no... More
  • No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the... More
  • No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is... More
  • Please stop using the word “Negro.”... We are the only human beings in the world with... More
  • Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels. More
  • Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a... More
  • She sang a song that sounds like life; I mean it was sad. Délira knew no other types of songs.... More
  • So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because... More
  • The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of... More
  • The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of... More
  • The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide... More
  • The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. More
  • The intellect,—that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though... More
  • The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and... More
  • the negro Babo took by succession each Spaniard forward, and asked him whose skeleton that was,... More
  • The new grammar of race is constructed in a way that George Orwell would have appreciated,... More
  • The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all.... More
  • The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or... More
  • The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the... More
  • The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from... More
  • The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. More
  • The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks... More
  • There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid. More
  • There are three kinds of people:
    White people, Colored people
    and Black people. More
  • There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to... More
  • There’s no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs,... More
  • They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as... More
  • To me, the black black woman is our essential mother—the blacker she is the more us she... More
  • Today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a... More
  • We can rejoice that the time has arrived when millions of Negro Americans can step out of the... More
  • We have yet to deal successfully with American transraciality in real terms, as we have failed to... More
  • What did I do to be so black and blue? More
  • When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea—that conserves it; ideas only save races. More
  • While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield... More
  • Whites must be made to realize that they are only human, not superior. Same with blacks. They... More
  • You know, when these New Negroes have their convention—that is going to be the chairman of the... More
  • “As liberals we’re willing to give place
    To any demonstrably better race,
    No matter... More

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