Race Quotes

The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you’ve already learned.

If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.

That’s it. Curtains. Off to the races. Treetops. Seashells and balloons.

During a race where everyone holds their own truth, the finish line is a surprise.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

I’m not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That’ll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.