Regina King Quotes

Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society.

It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.

Race is everything.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

"Race." I really can't understand it as anything other than something people say. The people who have said that you and I are both "black" and therefore deserve a certain kind of interaction with the world, they make race. I can't take them seriously.

All is race - there is no other truth.

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The history of race relations in America is very different than something like the Holocaust.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

In the last few years, race relations in America have entered upon a period of intensified craziness wherein fear of being called a racist has so thoroughly overwhelmed fear of being a racist that we are in danger of losing sight of the distinction.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

I think there's a racial outcome to a lot of what goes in America, but I don't think race is always the reason.

I've always been talking about race in some sort of capacity.

The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

I know that I am a black man in a white world. . . I know that I never had it made.

This is the United States of America and unfortunately, race still matters to a lot of people. The evil head of racism doesn't hide, it sticks its head up.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.