"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

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"The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged."

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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

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"Race relations never improve in war time; they always worsen. And it is when the boys come home the Ku Klux Klans are organized. I believe with George Schuyler that the only really feasible way to improve the general situation of the American Negro is to convince more and more whites that he is, as men go in this world, a decent fellow, and that amicable living with him is not only possible but desirable. Every threat of mass political pressure, every appeal to political mountebanks, only alarms the white brother, and so postpones the day of reasonable justice."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was white. Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said."

David Letterman, American Comedian

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"The Indian race are waiting and praying."

Chief Joseph, American Leader

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"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

Wendell Willkie, American Lawyer

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"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

Artur Davis, American Politician

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"I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them."

Amanda Beard, American Athlete

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"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go."

Murray Walker, English Entertainer

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"A 'white' kid that asks too many questions is called 'curious.' A 'black' kid that asks too many questions is called 'forward.'"

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was *white.* Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"

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"It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism."

"I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white."

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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."

"She looked out and saw a tall and comely woman beckoning to her. Susannah's first look at Mia in the flesh astounded her, because the chap's mother was white. Apparently Odetta-that-was now had a Caucasian side to her personality and how that must frost Detta Walker's racially sensitive butt!"