Race Quotes

Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

People go to car races to watch the crashes.

Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman president an asteroid is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.

I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but I am white and my main characters are white, outsiders at sea in the "Dark Continent."

I think one of the reasons with problems with conversation on race is that this is such a deeply personal conversation that it requires trust and someone you know.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

It's a little bit silly to pit us all against each other as if we were running a race. Just think about the fact that Richard Burton never won an Oscar.

This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.

Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

'I am that I am,' said the Eternal. The Eternal - it is the race. One in substance - undifferentiated. One in time - stable and eternal.

I can't say I believe in prizes. I was a whiz in the three-legged race - that's something you CAN win.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

I don’t feel in a kind of race or competition with him or anybody else, because that kind of reactive thing isn’t good, or isn’t useful for natural creative instincts

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint.

The at-home mother's life: it was a race with no finish line.

I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be very competitive at Daytona.

Jack Roush is the only guy that could keep Matt Kenseth from winning races.

Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone?

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. If George is good at anything, it's timing.

Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain,--proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

Race has been a big issue in this [presidency] campaign [2016].

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.

During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.

I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.