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Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.


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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
Octavia E. Butler
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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.
Robert Dale Owen
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.


Henry Adams
In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.
Dennis Prager
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
Rainbow Rowell
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As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in luxury.
Asif Ali Zardari
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Race in America has always centered on our mutual agreement not to see each other. White or non-white. Black or non-black. Mongoloid, Hindoo. We've always bought into to the crudest, humanity-denying forms of sorting.
Eric Liu
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I'm tired of ignoring that I march to a different beat.


Charlie Sheen
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
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People are so confused about race and hip-hop that people didn't even consider the Beastie Boys one of the greatest rap groups of all time because they were white.
Chuck D
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.
Margaret Atwood
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You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.


Jay Weatherill
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I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.


Bonnie Raitt
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
Fanny Kemble
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During the canvass in the State of Mississippi, I traveled into different parts of that state, and this is the doctrine that I everywhere uttered: that while I was in favor of building up the colored race, I was not in favor of tearing down the white race.
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When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.
Fuzzy Zoeller
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Marcus Garvey
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Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.


Katori Hall
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I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights.
Sophia Bush
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