124 quotes found
“I've always wanted to race cars, even since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.”
“Besides, skin color was skin color, right? It was just the color of your goddamned skin. There was nothing anybody could do about that. You were born with it. Like some people were born with big fe...”
“At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.”
“Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.”
“No one in the world -- in the entire world -- know more -- knows Americans better or, odd as this may sound, loves them more than the American Negro. This is because he has had to watch you, outwit...”
“Very few Americans will directly proclaim that they are in favor of black people being left to the streets. But a very large number of Americans will do all they can to preserve the DreamThe point ...”
“White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isnt threatening”
“Everyone's colored, or you wouldn't be able to see them.”
“Our political discourse has degenerated into anxieties about whether giving benefits to those people over there will take money out of the pockets of my kind of people over here, even when the chan...”
“What I was pointing to was that, yeah, blackness is a fiction; whiteness is a fiction. When we live according to these categories, were living within a fiction. Of course, its a fiction with very r...”
“A person should be important to you for you to be also important to the person so that you will be important to any other person.”
“I prefer being curious, mischievous and clever black monkey to being filthy, greedy and bad mannered white pig.”
“It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.”
“There remains a problem with race in America because of the church's failure to understand the issues from a biblical perspective." "Rather than being called into a different community by Scripture...”
“I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.”
“No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. ”
“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
“Plodding wins the race.”
“I don't race cars.”
“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”
