Race Quotes - Page 11

• Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

  Steven Spielberg

  Ideas, Feelings, Want

  "Steven Spielberg Talks His Holiday Double Features to Newsweek" by nne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2011.

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• ... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice.

  Leontyne Price

  Art, Voice, People

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• Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Responsibility, Humanity, Half

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• The great, the fundamental need of any nation, any race, is for heroism, devotion, sacrifice; and there cannot be heroism, devotion, or sacrifice in a primarily skeptical spirit.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Sacrifice, Heroism, Needs

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.193, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Special, Needs

  Anna Julia Cooper (1990). “A Voice From the South”, p.78, Oxford University Press

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• I never pretend to be so superior a being as to be above having and indulging a hobby horse [her journal writing], and while I keep mine within due bounds and limits, nobody, I flatter myself, would wish to deprive me of the poor animal: to be sure, he is not formed for labour, and is rather lame and weak, but then the dear creature is faithful, constant, and loving, and though he sometimes prances, would not kick anyone into the mire, or hurt a single soul for the world--and I would not part with him for one who could win the greatest prize that ever was won at any races.

  Fanny Burney

  Hurt, Horse, Writing

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.71, Penguin

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• The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.

  Bell Hooks

  Racism, Understanding, African American

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• Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sexual practice.

  Bell Hooks

  Cutting, Practice, Class

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.44, Routledge

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• A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.

  Bell Hooks

  Class, Diversity, Feminist

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.5, Routledge

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• God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

  Pope Paul III

  Faces, Invisible, Capacity

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• A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.

  Rick Larsen

  Leadership, Nature, Science

  "America Is Losing The Competition For The Arctic". Interview with Deb Reichmann, www.businessinsider.com. January 01, 2014.

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• The Nazis believed in a master race. The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Believe, History, Religion

  "Islamic State changes battle protocols in response to airstrikes". "AM" with Michael Vincent, www.abc.net.au. September 30, 2014.

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• Every time I bomb out, I have to come back. I have a feeling after a bad race that my next one will be good.

  Bill Rodgers

  Feelings, Bombs, Next

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• Please stop using the word "Negro."... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Names, People, Together

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• ... no young colored person in the United States today can truthfully offer as an excuse for lack of ambition or aspiration that members of his race have accomplished so little, he is discouraged from attempting anything himself. For there is scarcely a field of human endeavor which colored people have been allowed to enter in which there is not at least one worthy representative.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Ambition, Role Models, People

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Writing, Self, Creating

  Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

  Christina Stead

  Reason, Repetition, Assurance

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

  Christina Stead

  Lying, Political, Whips

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• Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Reality, Political, Television

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• In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Powerful, Practice, Weapons

  Marcus Garvey, Robert A. Hill (1984). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: September 1920-August 1921”, p.402, Univ of California Press

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• [Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.

  Liza Mundy

  Family, Leadership, Education

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• Stay in the race. Keep running. Keep walking. Keep praying. The Lord will renew your strength.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Running, Praying, Lord

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• It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.

  Jay Leno

  Looks, Exit, Republican

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