Race Quotes - Page 22

• A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down to the past, and a silent ignoring of pretended authority; brave looking forward to the future with more faith in our fellows, and the race will be ripe for a great burst of light and life.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Courage, Past, Light

  Elbert Hubbard (2012). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen”, p.8, tredition

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• The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

  William Osler

  Teaching, Mind, Language

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press

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• The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Yoko Ono". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2010.

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• It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

  Maya Angelou

  Doors, People, Important

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

  Maya Angelou

  Falling In Love, Difficult, Translate

  "America's Renaissance Woman". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• I'm old enough to remember when there were no black quarterbacks - there were no blacks on TV. I hope my son or daughter doesn't have to be as fixated on race as I am, because he or she will grow up in freer times.

  Chris Rock

  Daughter, Growing Up, Son

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Police, Would Be

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• We all exist in relation to the world, our partners, the human race.

  Sarah Ruhl

  World, Partners, Relation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

  James Mercer

  Certain, Humans, Whole

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Love You, Writing, Thinking

  "The Rumpus Interview With Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" by Kima Jones, therumpus.net. June 17, 2014.

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• This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots, drive by shootings, subway crashes, construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks, manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Have you seen that show on CBS called 'The Amazing Race'? Is that show about white people?

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, White

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Play, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.

  George Carlin

  Emotional, Thinking, America

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Running, Lines, Able

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• I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

  Barry Pepper

  Baseball, Football, Volleyball

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: "whitebread". The other day, someone came up to me and said, "What's up, whitebread?" And I was like, "That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!"

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, White

  "Comedy Central Presents / Mike Birbiglia: 2". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

  Sergey Lavrov

  Mean, Russia, Effort

  Source: theinternationalreporter.org

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• My work is heavily influenced by critiques that many critical intellectual traditions, especially Critical Race Theory, have made of reform projects focused on legal equality.

  Dean Spade

  Intellectual, Reform, Tradition

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Critical Race Theory offers of discrimination frameworks as ways of understanding and eradicating racism. The focus on "discrimination" as the way to understand racism in the US has meant that racism is considered a question of discriminatory intentions - whether or not somebody intentionally left someone out or did something harmful because of their biased feelings about a person's race. This focus on individual racists with bad ideas hides the reality that racism exists wherever conditions of racialized maldistribution exist.

  Dean Spade

  Reality, Ideas, Racism

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.

  Dean Spade

  Law, White, Reform

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the conditions and problems that most concern me - anti-colonial theories, Foucault, critical disability studies, prison studies and the like are rarely seen in standard US Law School curricula, where students are still fighting on many campuses to get a single class on race or poverty offered - I developed most of my thinking about these topics through activist reading groups and collaborative writing projects with other activist scholars.

  Dean Spade

  Reading, Writing, School

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• The best runners every year are those who race out way too fast.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Years, Way, Runners

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• My key to victory was that I always went out way too fast. Too fast erases every other race strategy out there. Everyone is hanging on for dear life or they give up.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Giving Up, Keys, Victory

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Tired, Kids, Littles

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