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"349 Race Quotes

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Earth Escapes Human Iniquity
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

African America Based Because
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When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Anywhere Black Context History
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I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.

About Before Drawing Fit
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.

About Artist Being Black
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I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Against Altar Eternal Every
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Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Better Cultures Stable Very
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It's unfortunate that myself, as a black man, cannot care about the issues that impact the black community without being seeing as a race-baiter or without being seen as someone who doesn't care about any other ethnic groups.

About Any Being Black
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If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Any Black Care Category
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Apply Equal Equally Experience
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People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

Fortunes Left Marry Men
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Ambitious Between Difference Genius
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Adversity Against Bravest Great
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They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
American Asian Boy Call
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

American Among Artist Be Different
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Am Fortune I Am Maker
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Child Doubt Eradicated Grow
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Being Deserves Each Even
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
Begin Built Compassion Love
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There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one's cultural superiority.

African Aid Appreciate Cultural
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Why do Angelina Jolie and Bono receive overwhelming attention for their work in Africa while Nwankwo Kanu or Dikembe Mutombo, Africans both, are hardly ever mentioned?

Africa African Angelina Jolie Attention
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I'm a black man in the United States, and there's no two ways about that. I have a shared common experience with other black men, and through that, there's an automatic understanding.

About Automatic Black Common
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

American Could Directors Discrimination
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

Any Because Definitely Embracing
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

About Art Background Candy
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

Honor Life Mexican Pride
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We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

Culture Economics Interested Manufacturing
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.

George Bush Doesn't About
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The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Aggression Culture Disposition Independent
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Civilization First Founder Human
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Adult Average Between Child
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You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.

Iraqi Know Me You
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Attention Burroughs Destruction Emotion
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Race Nature
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

America Black Body Brilliant
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Being Come Despair Given
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

Collective Faith Human Human Race
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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Accountable Alone Beings Enough
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The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

About Am Backing Families
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People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.

Cry Dance Die Get
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Because Buy Drink Hard
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Any Change City Claim
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But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

All Our Lives Black Go God
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Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Apply Boston Even Father
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It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

Ahead Best Doing Going
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No man is free who is not master of himself.

Free Himself Man Master
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