I think ‘In The Heat Of The Night’ was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it’s actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.
If he’s having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters… nobody except me.
I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority communities than any new gun-control laws.
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
Race cars, no matter what size or shape they are, they do the same things. It is not complicated.
The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as ‘better.’
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.
Its a touchy subject, ’cause I never want to take it there, where it seems like it’s all about race. But I feel like that’s something that comes along with the territory of being a black quarterback. When you have success – ‘Oh, you’re a freak athlete.’ Not, ‘Oh, you’re a good quarterback.’
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
I believe you win the race by looking forward, not behind.
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
If you want to win anything – a race, yourself, your life – you have to go a little berserk.
The way I look at it, every day that I’m moving forward is a day I’m not moving backward. Just the fact that I’m in the race at all is a miracle.
The loser, the fool, is embraced in England because there is a recognition of silliness there that allows a person to keep his ambitions and desires at a certain distance. Just being in the race is enough.
I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It’s time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we’re all in the same boat.
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that’s very old-fashioned. There’s a whole new generation of people who aren’t defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with.
People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.
Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.
But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.
I’ve got to win every race.
You get such a visceral thrill driving a race car. You think you’ve driven, and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I was doing something for 20 years that I didn’t realize I hadn’t experienced the real version of.’
Although September 11 was horrible, it didn’t threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.
I think we have a sin problem in the world. It’s so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.
The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.
Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Every time I go out and race it’s a goal to go out and run faster than I’ve done before.
We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
My friend is a former race car driver, so he races for Mercedes, and I root for him. I have a car that I love to race, I’ll take it to the track.
I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.
That’s what race fans love to see. That’s what they bought this ticket for. That’s what they’re sitting in the grandstands rooting on their favorite driver for is to see him get out there, mix it up clean and bring it home just like we were, third and fourth.
No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We’re all just part of Team Human.
You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.
It’s official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that’s what everybody thinks he said.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
I’m passionate about my race.
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative.
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
I have a race routine. I have a team of people helping me. I have winning habits. I believe in myself. I have balance in my life.
People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.
Slow and steady wins the race.
It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
That’s what we’re striving for, making us a contender in every race.
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
When Juventus lose, everyone celebrates because they hope the title race will be open again.
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
