Yeah, I love being famous. It’s almost like being white, y’know?

It can be hard to get motivated after the Olympics but once you get to the line you’re in race mode. I have to admit though that I’ve been feeling a little homesick as well.

When others seem to take advantage of you, do not retaliate by trying to take advantage of them. Use your power in improving yourself, so that you can do better and better work. That is...

I’ve been going to the race since 1996.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

In the white newspapers, they use it against us. They make the Panthers look like we all just want to rip the throats out of some white folks for no good reason. We have good...

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how you finish!

That race was so hard and I am very happy with the result in the end. Michelin did a great job with the tyres ‘­ the grip on the edge was unbelievable! When I opened...

Knowing how she won the 2004 race and lost in a re-count by 22 votes; one never forgets the pain.

Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back… The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that...

I’ve got to get out on the track and test and race and see how it all goes. Obviously it’s something I’m interested in, but we’ll just see how it goes, see how things progress.

Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America?

Unfortunately, honesty hasn’t always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile...

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

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.

To be or not to be that is the question.

That’s huge. Now we’re in the thick of the race, … There’s so much parity in this conference, it would be hard for a team to sweep right through it like we did last year.

Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all...

We think this destabilizing move to put the arms race into space is not only expensive but a violation of existing treaties.

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

That was probably the best race I’ve ever seen Robby drive. And hats off to him on that four-tire call with two laps to go (for the green-white-checkered). I was probably going to get two,...

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our...

The entire race has come down to this: We must win Wisconsin,

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

There are so many checks in this system I do not believe it is unfair, … This isn’t about race, it’s about the crime. It’s about an individual who has chosen to commit a crime....

There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If they learn...

Now you’re just bein’ silly,” Linnie said and let out a laugh.

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...

Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years.” -“Some of My Best Friends

The winner was better today but we’ll build from here. Before the race I was thinking that she would need [this race].

Gov. Ventura, if he got into the race, would be a formidable candidate for that nomination. But if I get into the race for the Reform Party nomination, you’ve got to put somebody up there...

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored...

Clearly, NAFTA has never delivered on its promises, … We need to redesign NAFTA so it’s not a race to the bottom.

Mick had once come across one of Wilson’t books and was surprised to see his face on the back cover. Mick was even more surprised when he read the book. It was pretty good, although...

For us, it’s become our most important race. But it’s February. The European teams could see this as purely a training race because guys are gearing up for the Tour de France.

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...

No one is an outside observer of nature,We’re defined by our environment and our interaction with that environment — by our ecology. And that ecology is necessarily relative, historical and empirical.

We had a good race this year, much better than last year (at county). I was not very happy at all last year with our race. We ran pretty well today and we had to...

racial

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma’am.

It would have been a different race if we could have pitted for tires with 16 laps to go, but that just didn’t happen,

The world’s not over with, … I’ve got some great sponsors on this race car that believe in us whether we made it or not. I got a great car owner in Robert Yates. We’ve...

Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I’m Jamaican or I’m Ghanaian. America doesn’t care.

This past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal and confirm a human identity, human authority, yet contains, for all its horror, something very beautiful. I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering –...

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a “label” than of being a human being, that’s the...

No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition whites show towards me…as long as that same respect and recognition isn’t shown towards everyone of our people in this country–it doesn’t exist for me.

I didn’t miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.