Race Quotes

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.

I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

You have to know this: running a 100m race is an intense experience. You have a lot of emotion at the end of the race. It is not easy to control that when you win.

My ranch William S. Hart Park is for the benefit of the American Public of every race and creed.

Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.