Quotes About Interracial Marriage

#1. In 1967, only 4% of Americans approved of interracial marriage, yet the Supreme Court dismissed the desire of 96% of Americans who did not support it in order to preserve the rights of the minority.

Kathy Baldock

#2. Before the 1975 fight in Manila, Ali bragged about attending a Ku Klux Klan meeting; he met with the KKK's leadership because they agreed on the issue of interracial marriage (both sides saw it as an atrocity). The

Chuck Klosterman

#3. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

Robert Lewis Hinkle

#4. Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

Jared Polis

#5. I'm in an interracial marriage.

Harold Ford Jr.

#6. As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Audre Lorde

#7. When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

Natasha Trethewey

#8. Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

Natasha Trethewey

#9. Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.

Jeff Greenfield

#10. Intermarriage is one of the most provocative words in the English language

Clotye Murdock Larsson

#11. There isn't any poison oak in the winter. It's hard to convince a girl you're sexy when you can't stop scratching your ass because of the rash. -Jax Cullen

Jill Shalvis

#12. When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

Robin Roberts

#13. My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it!

Monica DiNatale

#14. Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

Kim Dae-jung

#15. I'd adopt. And I think that if I'm really supposed to have kids, it will happen, if that's God's plan for me.

Janet Jackson

#16. I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.

Tia Mowry

#17. Im very disappointed that we missed our (earnings per share) growth target this quarter due to the confluence of a number of issues that we now understand and are urgently addressing. I accept full responsibility for the shortfall.

Carly Fiorina

#18. You are everything I could ever want. You are the place I want to be.

Helena Hunting

#19. I love to cry. It's such a great release. If I'm just tired - jetlagged, I didn't get any sleep, I want to cry. I think it's important to cry.

Cameron Diaz

#20. I think mixed women from interracial marriages are beautiful, and for many reasons, all of them good.

Daniel Marques

#21. This was the woman Narasimhan had married, as opposed to whatever girl from Madras his family wanted for him. Subhash wondered how his family reacted to her. He wondered if she'd ever been to India. If she had, he wondered whether she'd liked it or hated it. He could not guess from looking at her

Jhumpa Lahiri

#22. When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Jessica Biel

#23. She stared at his nude body in awe. "My God, you look like a Greek god in the moonlight," she whispered.
'Darlin', Greek gods do not have black hair. They're all blonds," he said.
"Darlin,' I'm telling this story and you are a Greek god in it.

Carolyn Brown

#24. People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

Rachel Weisz

#25. There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

#26. Prostitution was illegal in Kenya and was culturally a taboo. But what was a young orphaned girl with little education to do when she had to fend for three of her younger siblings? As she watched the waves hit the shores, she noticed a young handsome man staring at her from a distance.

Nya Wampaze