Race Matters Quotes

#1. But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it's about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It's about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Booker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Constance Baker Motley

#4. The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn't matter when you're alone together because it's just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. Race matters, and it matters most in those moments when we wish it didn't matter at all.

Terra Trevor

#7. It matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Rebecca West

#8. Apart from the scientific interest attached to my various journeyings, it has been made clear to me that human needs and aspirations differ little the world over and that no great difficulties arise in one race dealing with another when matters of scientific importance are involved.

Howard Florey

#9. In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#10. Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.

Jen Stephens

#11. If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

Alice Dreger

#12. Perhaps finding out that we carry New World history in our genes will transcend racial checkboxes altogether and enable Latino-Americans to rethink what America is supposed to look like.

Raquel Cepeda

#13. Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

Raquel Cepeda

#14. None of us get to choose our race but we all get to choose how we overcome its hurtles. Whether we jump or stumble...what matters most is that we take each moment in stride. Compassion, love, forgiveness and empathy will always win the human race.

Jason Versey

#15. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

#16. Life is like a foot race, Marcus: There will always be people who are faster than you, and there will always be those who are slower than you. What matters, in the end, is how you ran your race.

Joel Dicker

#17. Sports can unite worlds, tear down walls and transcend race, the past, and all probability. Unlike life, sport matters.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#18. What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

Ted Sarandos

#19. Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart.

Scott Simon

#20. Have proved more important to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood. France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident,

Charles Dickens

#21. The only race that matters is the human race.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#22. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.

Ernie Harwell

#23. In race of life, it does not matter who finishes first. What matters most is being able to complete your race.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.

John Ridley

#25. Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'

Robin Sharma

#26. The key is to trust in your preparation. You have done all you can, so focus on that fact. You will remain the same person before, during and after the race, so the result, however important, will not define you. The journey is what matters.

Chrissie Wellington

#27. It always hurts a bit to pick the 'wrong one' in a race as big as the Champion Hurdle, and then, to make matters worse, you go and get beat by the horse you rejected.

Tony McCoy

#28. Race totally matters. Race totally changes your point of view. It's a different experience.

Bryan Fuller

#29. I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

Hanya Yanagihara

#30. Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office.

Rory McIlroy

#31. You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

Paula Radcliffe

#32. On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#33. The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.

Peter F. Drucker

#34. Values matters well in a race.

George W. Bush

#35. I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#36. When today's race is over, it's over. The only race that matters is the one coming up.

Harry Gant