Lynn Nottage Quotes

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

Forget our special grievances and close ranks shoulder to shoulder with our white fellow-citizens.

Throughout my whole time in wrestling on the road, going out and being around some of the whitest people in the world, I've never had any problems with anybody. It was never black or white. Booker T was just a wrestler. I did that by design.

Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love.

The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly as a brother from a different mother.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

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

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

My black brothers and sisters - of all religious beliefs, or of no religious beliefs - we all have in common the greatest binding tie we could have. We are all black people!

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

I believe there are certainly racial problems in this country, and I believe that peaceful solutions can help bring the races together.

Our leader will not be a white man with a Black heart, nor a Black man with a white heart, but a Black man with a Black heart.

When was the last time each of us discussed the issue of race with a member of another race?

Race must never be a partisan issue.

All that is needed to make us the finest race on Earth is to engraft upon us the negro element, which Providence has placed by our side on this continent.... The white people of America are dying for want of fresh blood ... until church and state and society recognize not only the propriety but the necessity of the marriage of white and black.... in short, until the great truth shall be declared in our public documents and announced in the messages of our Presidents, that it is desirable that the white man shall marry the black woman and the white woman the black man.

Colored people come in all colors.

Some of my best friends are white.