#race

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#american #black #dignity #i #i am

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves. ↗

— Lily James

#comfortable #curves #embrace #healthy #i

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. ↗

— William James

#god #grace #miraculously #operates #probably

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#american #american people #before #calling #cries

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women. ↗

— Lord Kelvin

#horses #increases #large #only #performance

I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#faith

The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#bequeathed #blood #bones #bronze #capabilities

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#away #come #convention #faith #human

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. ↗

— Steve Kerr

#areas #because #blessed #country #despite