To speak pidgin to a Negro makes him angry, because he himself is a pidgin-nigger-talker. But, I will be told, there is no wish, no intention to anger him. I grant this; but it is...

If this is the Cup race, that’s the last lap and that’s what going on, it’s going to be a different outcome, I can tell you that.

I don’t think this is going to be a clean race at all,

Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You’re caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn’t go running with Curt today because you don’t want to sweat out this straightness. You’re always battling to...

Race doesn’t make a man; his mental programming determines his personality.

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won’t be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It’ll be because people have changed. They’ll be like you, Puffin. More...

See, a marriage needs love. And God. And a little money. That’s all. The rest you can deal with. It’s not about black or white. It’s about God and don’t let anyone tell you different....

The big difference is we’ve hit on a setup early in the season. The team is preparing great race cars. I’m comfortable in there. I’ve never had cars that I got to the track with...

That was a big race for him. He was real happy about 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.

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.

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.

A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time’s records before long.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

I’m pleased to have won the race and win the championship, … I knew I was well-prepared for this race.

I’m just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you’re usually not going to get it.

[MIKE’S REMARKS:] This race team probably deserved five or six wins by now, … We’ve been really close so many times. With about 100 laps to go, Jeff (Hensley, crew chief) told me: ‘We can...

Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the...

My color is my joy and not my burden…

I grew it out specifically for the race. This feels fantastic. It feels like you’re about to die out on the course, but boy, nothing feels better than finishing down Main Street. It’s a beautiful...

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on...

Considering that the race is star-studded no runner will be willing to set the pace for the others. This is why a record will be almost impossible.

Certainly, the great record of forced labor across the South demands that any consideration of the progress of civil rights remedy in the United States must acknowledge that slavery, real slavery, didn’t end until 1945...

Free your mind of the damaging clots of bias, being kind only to your own kind isn’t kindness at all

Truly, you understand the reverse art of alchemy, the depreciating of the most valuable things! Try, just for once, another recipe, in order not to realise as hitherto the opposite of what you mean to...

I know you don’t think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture,...

Look, without our stories, without the true nature and reality of who we are as People of Color, nothing about fanboy or fangirl culture would make sense. What I mean by that is: if it...

Ask anyone concerned with race to fast, and take note of the response you receive.

We’re this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

Once upon a time they was two girls,” I say. “one girl had black skin, one girl had white.”Mae Mobley look up at me. She listening.”Little colored girl say to little white girl, ‘How come...

The game never changes, you must be in the secret before you are shown to the public.

Teaching and learning religious plurality often ends up privileging religious texts over practice and largely ignoring the social and historical contexts and the lived experience of people who shape, situate, and structure these religious texts.

He seemed to hasten the retreat of departing light by his very presence; the setting sun dipped sharply, as though fleeing before our nigger; a black mist emanated from him; a subtle and dismal influence;...

He ran a great race. He’s a perfect three for three and getting better and better. Pablo and Doug have been big supporters of me, and it’s so nice to win one like this for...

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology...

We don’t have a singular kind of bias towards anybody — Muslims, any ethnicity, race, nobody. But most things that we [and most newspapers] do, especially on the editorial page … are going to offend...

If we come into the race with the idea that we have to do everything we can to save fuel, there will be 36 cautions and fuel will be irrelevant,

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...

Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals enact both in the way they talk about underprivileged blacks and the way...

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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

I don’t know how race would have affected it,

I’m going to celebrate like a race winner, not a champion, … If all I have to do is run a practice lap at Watkins Glen, it’s going to be the slowest lap you’ve ever...

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

To me, its just a word, a word whose power is owned by the user and his or her intention. People give words power, so banning a word is futile, really. ‘Nigga’ becomes ‘porch monkey’...

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them

The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.