It’s crazy how you hear the story of The Tortoise and the Hare while growing up, and assume it’s just a nice thing to tell kids—and then you start your career and watch it actually...

She had a pretty good idea what Tony was seeking. He couldn’t look at her without seeing her mother, and father, and brother. He needed to know for certain that she would never share their...

I’m getting focused on my race and all I’m thinking about now is to attack the course in front of me.

In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion...

Like vampires and extremely rich people, black folk can sense one another. Use your Spidey Sense (Blacky Sense?). Use your blackdar to inspect the workplace for signs of Other Negroes. They may be working security...

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who...

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop’s irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative,...

racial tensions” is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America can do will affect the perceptions of many black Americans or of the leftist libel.

The Race to GED is making a difference in many Virginia communities and I am proud to be a part of it. By joining the Race to GED, working-age men and women can earn a...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the “Negro” has been inviting whites, as well as civil society’s junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years,...

I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment – but you have to be positive.

It’s a little like a sophisticated engine in a race car. If you develop it, you don’t go out and race the next day. You have to test it. They have to do a bunch...

That’s the best run we’ve had in a while for a complete race, counting the last half of last year. I feel pretty good about it. Carl (Edwards) passed me (for third) at the end,...

There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn’t make us all the same. But it did affect us. It...

Yes. The gloriously imperfect human being.

I have no definable history before I was abandoned and taken in by the orphanage in Hong Kong. I truly am a blank sheet. I have been disconnected from my ancestors. I don’t know who...

For him not to finish as many races as he has is frustrating. I think this whole race-every-single-race deal – if everything is not lined up – is not productive. You have to back up...

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

If we can get a Democrat, Republican and an Independent in every race, we’d be pleased as punch.

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant...

I may not drink an electrolyte beverage during the race. If I am running in an hour, I won’t need one. But if you’re running an hour-and-a-half to two hours or more, maybe you need...

I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don’t know why...

We can. I’ve said all along, our talent is equal to that of any team in this race. We just have to do it.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that’s designed to win races or you come second or you come third or fifth and am not design to come third, fourth or fifth, I...

Race was not a criteria.

If my mother’s intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case...

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man...

Just 10 points a race isn’t going to do it, and what are the chances of me finishing second for the next six races? We can only do as good as we can do and...

From a mental standpoint, not from a nut-and-bolts thing with the race car, but from a mental standpoint I think this team is more focused and more ready to go. I feel like I’m the...

It doesn’t have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There’s a lot you can do with natural hair

the race against the clock.

It’s a good swim. She had a tough heat. We were hoping she would have someone to race with. The three girls that went out in the pack were so far ahead in her heat....

This is going to be a very expensive race between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent.

We already have defections from the Blunt list, and we expect more. Vote counts in this sort of race are notoriously inaccurate. I am in this race to the finish.

Quite frankly we are both tired of the race we have been asked to run.

You’re safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.Where in is the cause for anger,...

Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!” bellowed Mika.Kira glared at Mika. “I mean, beat her in the race!

The team that wins this race is the one that doesn’t have any unscheduled pit stops. Some of these guys, they might be tempted to make this into a sprint race and try to show...

Georgetown is always fast and we race them again in three weeks, so we’ll have to continue getting faster since we know they will.

He lost some 50 horsepower and in fact drove a really excellent race, but he was eventually halted by an hydraulic leak.

Up until then I’d thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman,...

In 2002, that was a highly contested race, and Charlie won it handily, by nearly 10 points. The registration numbers there are 40 percent Democrat, 31 percent Republican, which is pretty convincing.

That 5-furlong race is kind of the reason I wouldn’t run him (Monday) if he wasn’t at his best. It would cause a tailspin and prevent him from making the sprint. It’s the kind of...

INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_...

Alyssa Snyder had a really good race. She started out farther back and moved her way up throughout the race.

If Indian Vale is as good as we think she is and she runs her race, she’ll make me look good. If I make her look bad, then I will apologize to her. But I...