#race

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#composed #mistakes #overcoming #perfect #race

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#back #comes #different #discrimination #gender

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. ↗

— Mark Twain

#finish #hang #human #human race #like

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#got #like #not talking #percent #practicality

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bodies #feelings #forms #garments #grace

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport. ↗

— Alberto Juantorena

#every #i #just #practically #promote

It's funny, though, because when I first started going to races after we met, I was extremely nervous. It's like being backstage and hoping you don't trip over something or break an amp or accidentally speak into a live microphone, so I was really hesitant. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#after #amp #backstage #because #being

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#commission #crime #crimes #ever #far

I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#actor #already #because #did #discovered

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years. ↗

— Juvenal

#disgraceful #ever #greatest #ignore #mind