Race Quotes

I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s.

The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic figure in all rowing.

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it, and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

It seems like when you're in the race, they do everything they can to ignore you, so maybe being out of the race [I] might get a little more attention, we'll see.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

All is race - there is no other truth.

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.

Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

[Olympics] obviously, is not the easiest thing to do, and nobody makes any money out of. Yet, for the small amount of money they could [invest] in a Formula One race, they don't want to do it.

some of us have so much defeat in our past that we feel we lost the race before we knew it started.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

I don't think you can bring the races together by joking about the differences between them. I'd rather talk about the similarities, about what's universal in their experiences.

Obama has had more fundraisers than the last six presidents combined. And he's still losing in the money race!

I also feel it usually takes four or five races to hit your best marathon for your body to be accustomed to the training AND the race itself.

Every race is totally different.

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.

I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

I have never had problems sleeping the night before a race.

For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.

No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

I don't lack confidence. I don't sweat. I don't want to get too Zen on you, but I have to run my own race.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

For their abuse of [the Black African] race, the whites will be cursed, unless they repent.

Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races.

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Race ain't nothing but a number.

Consider it a race to see who kills you first, Daylighter-Valentine, the other Downworlders, or the Clave.

Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000.

I cannot speak adequately, especially considering my race and my privilege, to the violence of the NYPD or the police in racial terms. That is something that I cannot speak adequately to.

The Andalucían race is very strong. Another mystery- it has the most jealous people in the world, both men and women!

I am in a mixed race marriage myself, and I have a mixed race son....The racial perception interest is probably always going to be there to some extent.

Most people dont think about race as much as I do. They dont have to.

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a long habit of observing ourselves.

I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.