#race

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#any #artist #available #black #embraced

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois. ↗

— Rod Blagojevich

#better #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions #doing

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges. ↗

— Anita Desai

#characters #connection #emerges #i #plot

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#best #happy #i #personal #race

I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#expecting #get #gold #good #good thing

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.' ↗

— Jayson Blair

#caught #demons #i #i believe #me

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#hire #hiring #how #i #know

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#hard #played #race #really #role

My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do. ↗

— Steve Blake

#carried #compete #competitive #everything #fish

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ↗

— William Blake

#cannot #half #hate #human #human race