Quotes about race
race two america
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things. There's black people from America and then there's black people from Africa. Racially, they're the same; culturally, they're extremely different. Russell Peters
race differences issues
I talk about race and culture, and that's what my fans respond to. If you grew up in an environment where race and culture were never an issue for you, or where you don't see the humor in our so-called differences, then you might not respond to what I'm doing.
race doubt helping
O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee. Ronald Knox
race skins cleansing
While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad. Stephen Colbert
race purpose littles
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation. Thomas B. Macaulay
race racism identity
Hardly any aspect of my life, from where I had lived to my education to my employment history to my friendships, had been free from the taint of racial inequity, from racism, from whiteness. My racial identity had shaped me from the womb forward. I had not been in control of my own narrative. It wasn’t just race that was a social construct. So was I. Tim Wise
race white united-states
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the white race, where it came from and for what reason you know that it was a trick, and it's worked brilliantly. You see, prior to the mid to late 1600s, in the colonies of what would become the United States, there was no such thing as the white race. Those of us of European descent did not refer to ourselves by that term really ever before then.
race people mind
As for procreation, no one in his right mind would say that it is the only activity devoid of a praiseworthy incentive. Those who reproduce, then, should not feel unfairly culled as the worst conspirators against the human race. Every one of us is culpable in keeping the conspiracy alive, which is all right with most people. Thomas Ligotti
race trash modernism
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' Raymond Loewy
race progress brutality
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. Victor Hugo
race sky cities
Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
race extinction possibility
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility. Vernor Vinge
race firsts remember
I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. Usain Bolt
race ethnicity should-have
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. Susana Martinez
race people want
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish, as lyrical and romantic as they can be in their poetry, they can be every bit as repressed in their personal relations. Stephen Lang
race color skills
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. Stedman Graham
race soul stalwart
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race. Taylor Caldwell
race enemy flatterer
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers. Tacitus
race dwelling-place tree
The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
race charity tests
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. Swami Vivekananda
race made renunciation
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously.
race law scary
If you're here tonight to support me, you shouldn't be here. This is not about me. This is about something far more important. It transcends race, it transcends politics, it transcends gender. This is about the laws of God. Roy Moore
race stories corporations
The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us. Tom Robbins
race years two
Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later. Tom Kristensen
race natural-instinct avoiding
The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. Steve Redgrave
race class piano
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift. Steve Harvey
race looks world
What I've learned about that word is context, where the world is coming from - in the era the film is set, it obviously is used derogatorily. In 'Selma,' it was the same sort of thing. Of course now, in music, it's used in many more ways, including ways that takes the sting out of it. It all depends on where and when it is used, and how you look at it. But again in 'Race,' it is intensely disrespectful. Stephan James
race musical earth
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. Stendhal
race today lasts
In the human race today, you came last. Spike Milligan
race psychics development
The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race. Sigmund Freud
race humanity development
Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
race civilization unity
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
race tragedy forgotten
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine. Shirley MacLaine