Race Quotes

• I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Art
  • American
  • Black

• In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

  

  Aristotle
  • Lead
  • Hold
  • Must

• Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Stories
  • Race
  • Writers

• It's as if women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up, low-slung racing cars and we're running as fast as we can in tennis shoes we managed to salvage from a local garage sale.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Years
  • Race
  • Relation

• Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

  

  Euripides
  • Love
  • Race
  • Venus

• When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Hair
  • Winning
  • Olympic Games

• Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Universe
  • Air

• Yeah, it's an origin story. But you very quickly get into the origin and then it's off to the races. It is an origin story, certainly, but it's not like the movie ends and somebody stretches. It happens pretty quickly and I'm not sure how much I'm allowed to say about it, but I think when people see that first hint, they'll be pretty excited about it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stories

• I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Children
  • Respect
  • Opponents

• If you commit yourself to the love of Christ, then that is how you run a straight race.

  

  Eric Liddell
  • Race
  • Commit
  • Love of Christ

• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  

  Kanye West
  • Race
  • Ants
  • Oxford

• There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat!

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Done
  • Sweet
  • Celebration

• The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Earth
  • Hops
  • Last Man

• If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Race
  • Develop
  • Loyalties

• However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Good
  • Two
  • Track

• As a race, the African is inferior to the white man. Subordination to the white man is his normal condition. He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions. Our system, therefore, so far as regards this inferior race, rests upon this great immutable law of nature.

  

  Alexander H. Stephens
  • Race
  • Law Of Nature
  • Subordination

• It's been a really worthwhile test, ... We worked on getting into the corners a bit quicker and we made a lot of progress with some improved front fork settings. To lap in 1m 57s on race tyres is a massive step forward and much better than I could have ever expected.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Progress
  • Corners
  • Worthwhile

• It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moving
  • Risk
  • Humans

• We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.

  

  Albert J. Beveridge
  • Race
  • Obey
  • Lands

• I prefer just a women's race. It's a totally different game mentally.

  

  Paula Radcliffe
  • Women
  • Race
  • Prefer

• Race and hip hop is kind of the elephant in the room.

  

  Martin Johnson Boys Like Girls
  • Race
  • Hip Hop
  • Elephant

• Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Imagine
  • Project
  • Controlling

• There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race.

  

  Mike Rounds
  • People
  • Humans
  • Rounds

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