“I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.” ThinkingKnowsSelfRaceBrainInformationExampleColorDegreesRacismSkinsIncreaseStructureBonesRacistAssociatesSkin Color Author:Tao Lin
“I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.” LightWantedBlackRaceColorErrorsMarkers Author:Toni Morrison
“Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.” MenFactsPoliticalOpportunityPoliticsJusticeRaceColorSkinsBlindEmancipationProclamationUnawarenessUnconcernedEmancipation ProclamationRace And Color Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“The good thing about New Orleans is that, overall, it's an accepting place. It's accepting of eccentricity, it's accepting of excess, it's accepting of color, in the sense of culture, not necessarily in the sense of race.” CultureRaceAcceptingColorGood ThingsExcessNew OrleansEccentricity Author:Christopher Rice
“You can't discriminate against someone because of their race, color, or religion, but you can discriminate against someone because of their sexual preference, I find it to be abhorrent.” RaceColorPreferenceAbhorrent Author:Rib Hillis
“In an era when America is still too divided by race and by riches, Judge [Samuel] Alito has not written one single opinion on the merits in favor of a person of color alleging race discrimination on the job: in 15 years on the bench, not one.” YearsPersonsStillsJobsAmericaRaceOpinionWrittenColorJudgingRichesFavorsDiscriminationErasMeritDividedBenches Author:Edward Kennedy
“I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldAmericaRaceColorTrumpStandingDividesOrientationDividing Author:John Lewis
“We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.” MatterMotherBeliefRaceColorSkinsTongueSkin ColorMother Tongue Author:Claudia Black
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“Here's an easy one: "Race is an entirely social construct." No, it's partially one, depending on how any given society seeks to define it and its implications. But there are basic things such as skin color and hair texture. Even a Martian who'd had no exposure to human "social constructs" would be able to spot those differences. But no Martian, as hard as he tried, could point at a "culture" or to "equality." Those are the social constructs. Those can't be measured in the same way as human DNA.” WayHumansHardWould BeAbleCultureGivenSocialEasyDifferencesRaceColorHairSkinsSpotsConstructsDnaExposureImplicationsTextureSkin ColorMartiansBasic Things Author:Jim Goad
“In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.” PeopleIfsNeedsAmericaMovingWhiteRaceRolesColorRight NowRacismAcknowledgeNeedles Author:Jodi Picoult
“New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.” MenKindDifferentStatesAmericaBlackDifferencesWhiteUnitedRaceCitiesUnited StatesMinutesDangerousColorPropertyInternationalAll KindsOddTerritoryContinentsUnited States Of AmericaNew OrleansThrillingFree ManNuanceNorth AmericaLouisianaBlack Or WhiteDangerous PlacesDifferent Races Author:John Guare
“[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of colour. That’s my theory. I don’t know whether it’s right or not, but that’s what I always respected about Malcolm. He was absolutely, totally impeccable on the question of race and colour.” ThinkingKnowsPersonsHas BeensBlackRaceStudentsColorTheoryMetsLonelyJudgementGrammarOxfordImpeccableMelbourneRace And ColorLonely Person Author:Bob Hawke
“As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.” KnowsPersonsRaceColorAdmirationPreference Author:Vivek Shraya
“Should I be collaborating with artists of color solely because of their race and my politics? This question is weighted with my own worry that I have been invited to speak or collaborate solely because of my race, and not because of my abilities.” ShouldHas BeensArtistSpeakMy OwnAbilityRaceWorryColorShould IInvitedCollaborating Author:Vivek Shraya
“That split is inside all Americans. There are contradictions inside all of us about color and race. We've learned to cover them up and live with them and pretend that deep cleavage is not there. We all bear that illness.” RaceColorBearsIllnessContradictionSplitsCleavage Author:John Edgar Wideman
“My experience may be different than theirs, readers can identify with trying to save for retirement or their own kid's college fund. In truth, the name of the column, "The Color of Money," has less to do with my race than the fact that the color of money is green and it's green we all need to live a good life.” NeedsTryingMayDifferentFactsKidsNamesRaceCollegeColorReaderGreenFundRetirementGood LifeColumns Author:Michelle Singletary
“We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.” RaceDemocracyRightsCenturyColorProtectSkinsFundamentalsGenderStakes21st CenturySkin ColorFundamental Rights Author:Martin Schulz
“America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.” PeopleRealityTogetherAmericaYoungRaceCitiesColorTheoryAccomplishConsumersHanging OutPotConsumerismMeltingPhonyMelting Pot Author:Russell Means
“Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.” HumanityFeltRaceSituationColorSkinsUniversalFlawsOutsiders Author:Jordan Peele
“Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.” RaceGreatnessColorDiversitySkinsEthnicitySkin ColorRace Ethnicity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I hope to encourage some people out there, especially all the mixed, curly-headed babies of the world, stand up, we are here! But just people in general, it really doesn't matter. Judge a man on his actions, his words, not the color of his skin or the race, or where he grew up.” PeopleMenWorldMatterActionRaceColorJudgingBabyGrewGrew UpSkins Author:Kevin michael
“The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.” PeopleWayDifferentUnderstandingLinesPartyRaceCuttingGenerationsColorAmountInteractionCreedsUnprecedentedPartisansDifferent ColorsDifferent Races Author:Barack Obama
“What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.” PeopleUseLeftLanguageSocialJusticeRaceBehindsPracticeChangedColorStructureCriminalsDiscriminationLabelsErasRelyOur SocietyJustifyContemptCollapseJustificationLeft BehindCrowJustice SystemExclusionCriminal JusticeJim CrowCriminal Justice System Author:Michelle Alexander
“I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanIdeasKidsAbleSchoolFormYoungCoursesDifficultRaceRightsMovementColorPoliticianMassPoliceHarmHonestlyMythologyCivil RightsRacistServingOfficersCivil Rights MovementPolice OfficerIncarcerationBacklashMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“I want to drink life to the dregs, to enlarge myself to the absolute limits of my being - and to strive for a society in which everyone -regardless of race, creed, color and especially religious conviction - has the same exhilarating raison d'être, and the same opportunity to fulfill it.” WantOpportunityReligiousRaceColorDrinkLimitsAbsolutesStriveConvictionCreedsExhilaratingDregs Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.” HumansFactsUseRaceColorPercentSkinsRacistDislikeDnaSkin Color Author:Tillie Olsen
“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.” KnowsRaceEconomyColorCapitalismGreenGenderLibertarianEthnicitySubservientRace EthnicityRace And Ethnicity Author:Thomas Sowell