Race Quotes

America’s a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless,

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

My approach to the races hasn’t changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.