Race Issues Quotes

• Weight issues, race issues will always be there and if you allow them to get to you and you allow them to affect you then yes they affect you. But my thing is I have so many other things to worry about I can't worry about other people's perception of me.

  Octavia Spencer

  Issues, Race, People

  "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien", www.cnn.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Race, Issues, Latina

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• [Barack] Obama has a grasp of language and the presentation of language, particularly in times of crisis. And he did this over the race issue. He did this early on in his administration, when the country was polarized. That was unprecedented.

  Frank Luntz

  Country, Race, Issues

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• All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.

  Carly Simon

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Conversations between parents and kids are important, about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

  Garcelle Beauvais

  Kids, Race, Issues

  "Garcelle Beauvais Mixes It Up [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. August 8, 2013.

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• I'M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents. I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it's a beautiful thing.

  Benjamin Watson

  Beautiful, Race, America

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.16, NavPress

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Heart, Thinking, White

  Source: creativescreenwriting.com

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• I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

  Jimmy Carter

  Party, Thinking, Race

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