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If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail. — Henry Johnson Jr

British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any — Charles Dickens

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people," if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Crystal, do you like being a white girl? — Randolph Randy Camp

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America. — Hillary Clinton

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper. — Cornel West

Calling for an end to hate shouldn't be treated as a punishable offense. — DaShanne Stokes

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason. — Rand Paul

In America, you don't get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. — Richard Rodriguez

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are. — Gore Vidal

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not. — Paul Singer

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again. — DaShanne Stokes

I tried to get away from him, to get to that door, but instead I backed up against the wall and was stuck there in that white, white room. — Louise Erdrich

in America it was all or nothing when it came to race. You were either white or you weren't. Funnily — Viet Thanh Nguyen

I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it. — Toni Morrison

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood. — Katelyne Parker

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves. — DaShanne Stokes

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If every major city in America went up in the flames of race riots tonight, how ready would you be? — Billy Roper

The only thing white about me is the skin I'm wearing. — Randolph Randy Camp

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive. — Condoleezza Rice

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse. — Raquel Cepeda

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America. — Isoroku Yamamoto

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid. — David Hopper

Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady. — Raquel Cepeda

Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day. — Jennifer Granholm

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds and beliefs. — Carlos Wallace

Yesterday Jerry Springer bowed out of the Ohio Senate race. He said, 'If I can't run the most embarrassing campaign in America, then I'm out of here.' — Craig Kilborn

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust. — Jamaica Kincaid

When a rainbow spreads across the sky it is reminding the world that beauty comes in all colors. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Racism is not a byproduct as much as it's the foundational stock in the American soup. — Luvvie Ajayi

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors. — Darnell Lamont Walker

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

... as a reminder that a white man could still kill him for nothing. — Yaa Gyasi

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America. — Howard Fast

Long ago, before I met her, she twisted her blond hair into dreadlocks and, pretty as she is, the locks add an allure she wouldn't otherwise have. — Toni Morrison

Racism is pure ignorance. We are part of the same race. The human race — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it. — Tim Wise

J.W. and Roy didn't just snatch the childhood away from Emmett; they stole it from every single black child in Mississippi. — Bernice L. McFadden

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. — Mike Tyson

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions. — Angela Y. Davis

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood. — Barack Obama

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient. — James Weldon Johnson

America's put American Black Folks in such a bad position, empty plates and glasses now get us full. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques. — Victor LaValle

I discovered race in America and it fascinated me. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I hadn't trained Lula Ann properly she wouldn't have known to always cross the street and avoid white boys. — Toni Morrison

The loudest of doomsayers, so often, carry the weightiest of sin. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself. — Aberjhani

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. — Mitch Landrieu

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness. — Eddie Huang

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. — Octavia E. Butler

If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption. — Henry Hampton

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do. — Brian Spellman

In America, your ancestors don't matter so much. You're just you. — Lensey Namioka