Quotes About Post Racial America

#1. The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you've a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered.

Olivia Parker

#2. When Obama came to power, there was a lot of talk about a post-racial America.

Ezra Koenig

#3. The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Wesley Morris

#4. When someone takes such an interest in you, you have to wonder what it is exactly they're searching for.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation's general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

Riane Eisler

#6. Christ's work needs no repetition. It is final because it is perfect.

F.B. Meyer

#7. I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

Scot Armstrong

#8. If women could ejaculate, I would have exploded hot jizz all over my manager's face. Instead, I hugged him. (about getting the SNL gig as a writer)

Sarah Silverman

#9. The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Tessa Thompson

#10. Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.

John Eliot

#11. When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible.

Debasish Mridha

#12. What worries me is that 'post-racial' America is not that different from the Americas that have preceded us, and it might not ever be.

Roxane Gay

#13. If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Doreen Virtue

#14. The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet.

Timothy Noah

#15. Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

Jane Goodall

#16. It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

Vance Havner

#17. Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.

Jennifer Granholm

#18. Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

Justin Simien

#19. Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.

Stephen Covey

#20. Welcome to post-racial America. I'm the face of post-racial America.

Tracy Morgan

#21. On tour, it's hard to do much writing, but if I'm on a deadline, I find a way.

Davy Rothbart

#22. This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

Tavis Smiley

#23. There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Henry Louis Gates