"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."

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

Catharine Beecher, American Educator

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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

Race, Justice, War, Society

"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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"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

Ida B. Wells, American Activist

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"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

J. Philippe Rushton, Canadian Psychologist

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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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"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."

Mary Docter, American Athlete

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"I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist."

Jean Alesi, French Celebrity

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"Slow and steady wins the race."

Robert Lloyd, English Poet

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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!"

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

"The Afro-American is not a bestial race."

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits."

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

"I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race."

"I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist."

"Slow and steady wins the race."

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"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."

"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being."

"Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance."

"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it."

"Nature has different times."

"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."

"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."

"Music is a performance and needs the audience."

"I think we're all pretty odd."

"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."

"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!"