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

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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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."

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"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

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"In the biological sense, race does not exist."

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"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

Lynn Barber, British Journalist

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"I never though much about race."

Thelonious Monk, American Musician

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

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"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."

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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."

"I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win."

"On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again."

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

"The stronger Hillary is, the weaker she is. The more she seems like a likely presidential winner, the more difficult the senate race becomes in New York. It's perfect."

"In the biological sense, race does not exist."

"The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race."

"I never though much about race."

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

"I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."