Quotes about Race

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Originally, what we call rock 'n' roll was nothing more than an attempt of very bad white performers to sound like black rhythm-and-blues performers. They did their best to emulate, they did their best to paraphrase. And that started what later became rock 'n' roll.

Life, itself, is a great chariot race, and the victory goes only to those who have developed the strength of character and determination and willpower to win.

White guilt and the fear of speaking up concerning issues of race and morality is costing this nation greatly.

It is this rattling I believe that affects the second point: our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?

Her color is a cross she will always carry.

Things got better but I still had to be careful. Very careful in how I raised her. I had to be strict, very strict. Lula Ann needed to learn how to behave, how to keep her head down and not to make trouble. I don't care how many times she changes her name. Her color is a cross she will always carry. But it's not my fault. It's not my fault. It's not my fault. It's not. Bride I'm scared.

They shoot the white girl first.