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 point of view, one which saw nothing beyond the color of his skin. Janet wanted to abolish his doubts but...

High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the racial rules. We great unwashed of the outer world, on the coasts of new continents, though we might ourselves have behaved atrociously to indigenes, were baffled by the determination with which Europe returned...

That the Indians possess the inherent right of expatriation as well as the more fortunate white race, and have the inalienable right to ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’ so long as they obey the laws and do not trespass on forbidden ground.

Scientists found that there are exactly as many skin pigment colors to the various races of this world as there are different colors of soil [dirt].

I’m really sort of surprised at this run because we spent 98 percent of our time yesterday working on race setup and I got really comfortable with what I had there, … Within the rules structure they allow you to do a few things for qualifying and the guys took advantage of that.

Racism doesn’t have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt – but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don’t have it fit our stereotype either.

…being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

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.

That was the worst race we could have asked for.

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 group.

It doesn’t directly impact the conference race, but I think it does indirectly, because we can become a better team because of these matches.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

This is the biggest race of the year, Daytona. This is the one that everybody wants to be at, this is the one every sponsor wants to be involved in.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

The last thing Pa and Big Ma wanted to hear was how we made a grand Negro spectacle of ourselves thirty thousand feet up in the air around all these white people.

Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?””Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.

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.

She ran a good race. She was not ready, and this time she’s ready.

Cosmopolitanism seeks a _we_ that does not rely on the exclusion of _others_ but, instead, recognizes and confirms each other as part of the planetary _we_. The cosmopolitan _we_ is not grounded in a monolithic sameness but in a constant alterity and _ethical singularity_ of each individual human person regardless of one’s national origin and...

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!

Obama will win. We will win. Then we will continue to lose. And the right questions will never be honestly asked or answered, and it’s all just too much.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You’ve got to go through it.

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 and ask what is my priority? To compete at my best or just make another start?

It’ll be a competitive race.

Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other’s burdens? … What makes you and I so different, Ayden?

People run away from the love game because they know they won’t win the race.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race’s knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation.

Sean reaches between us and slides a thin bracelet of red ribbons over my free hand. Lifting my arm, he presses his lips against the inside of my wrist. I’m utterly still; I feel my pulse tap several times against his lips, and then he releases my hand.”For luck,” he says. He takes Dove’s lead...

Skin color doesn’t make you different,’ Melody said. ‘We’re all the same on the inside.’ ‘The only people who ever say that,’ Raymon replied, ‘are white.

Life is a race, and what matters most isn’t when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they’ve grown along the way.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I just had that kick at the end. We worked together for the first two laps, but it’s anybody’s race after that.

Hey, Lenzi … my offer from a century ago still stands. If Alden doesn’t treat you right, I’m here for you in any capacity, if you know what I mean.

I wrote Dreams of My Mothers because it reveals deep insight into a topic – cross boarder, cross racial adoption – that rarely gets much attention from any quarter, because it represents such a niche subset of our society, but contains within it nearly all the most deeply felt – and held – human themes,...

The demand to be intimate or honest with a public can be invasive when the experiences of racial others are commodified as stories or objects that might be traded as evidence of intimacy, as proof of ‘being good,’ for nonracial others. In this way, intimacy might act as surveillance, through which some people–women of color,...

The disparities vary so much. It isn’t one race or ethnic group that’s always worse off.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there’s a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

On our life map, he drew a bright circle around twelve through eighteen. This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to reemerge on corners and prison tiers.

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 feet or blue eyes. You didn’t make the choice. Your parents did. Or God did.

It comforts everybody to think of all Negroes as dirt poor, and to regard those who were not, who earned good money and kept it, as some kind of shameful miracle. White people liked that idea because Negroes with money and sense made them nervous. Colored people liked it because, in those days, they trusted...

[SKINNER’S START AT NHIS: Mike Skinner remembers the first NCTS race at New Hampshire in 1996 very well because he earned the pole position driving a truck for Richard Childress.] I remember that first race at New Hampshire because we had everybody covered in practice and qualifying, … That year, we won the race the...

If there is such a things as “race”, there is only the Human one.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

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 I should be asked to explain your life to you. We have splendid writers to do that, but I am...

This is a breakthrough for farmers in the South. Farmers needed a good, high-yielding variety with multi-race SCN resistance.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

For the mentally disturbed, Marie knew these sandwich visits might be the only dependable moments in their lives. She also knew she delivered the sandwiches for her own sanity. Something would crumble inside of her if she ever walked by a homeless person and pretended not to notice. Or simply didn’t care. In a way,...

This was an important game for the playoff race. It was our worst game since preseason. We mentally never found ourselves because of turnovers and some missed easy shots.

It was my last race, and I just wanted to give everything I had because there wasn’t another race left.

leaders” without followers; old men of sixty or more still caught up in post-Civil War dreams of freedom within segregation; the pathetic ones who possessed noting beyond their dreams of being gentlemen, who held small jobs or drew small pensions, and all pretending to be engaged in some vast, though obscure, enterprise, who affected the...