#race

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #america #american #american writer #ancestry

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#best #borrow #composed #distinct #form

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#embrace #i #just #me #part

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#found #grace #i #i do #leave

We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender. ↗

— Judge Mills Lane

#creed #focus #gender #must #people

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#around #go #got #over #problem

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am. ↗

— K. D. Lang

#embrace #get #i #i am #more

Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another. ↗

— Walter Lang

#another #inferior #neither #nor #race

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment. ↗

— Walter Lang

#arose #coding #environment #god #needed