Conversations About Race Quotes

#1. It's time we become comfortable with the uncomfortable conversations about race ... Instead of being color blind, we need to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

#2. I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a company in Australia, and we did avant-garde theater, playing with gender norms, conversations about race - we just had a box of issues that we wanted to subvert with our stories, with dance.

DeObia Oparei

#3. People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

David Rakoff

#4. She laughed. I closed my eyes. It sounded damn mournful, that laugh of hers echoing off the square.

Esi Edugyan

#5. They taught us a toast in Ukranian which we like: 'Let us drink to make people at home happy.' And they toasted again to peace, always to peace. Both of these men had been soldiers, and both of them had been wounded, and they drank to peace.

John Steinbeck

#6. White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Margaret Cho

#7. Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

Garcelle Beauvais

#8. I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

Michael Kiwanuka

#9. There is no 'lose' - Only 'win', or 'learn'.

Luis D. Ortiz

#10. Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

Marc Maron

#11. Wherever God erects a house of prayer
the Devil always builds a chapel there;
And t'will be found, upon examination,
the latter has the largest congregation.
- Defoe's The True-Born Englishman, 1701

Daniel Defoe

#12. A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.

Nicolle Wallace

#13. For every victory there is a price.

Jacqueline Carey