Racial Passing Quotes & Sayings

I love the outdoors. I love to hike. I spend a lot of time in LA and so I hike all the hills. — Matthew Kane

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. — John Petit-Senn

Sometimes I half fall asleep when I am sitting alone and fancy things that have never happened. — Charlotte Bronte

I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album. — T.I.

As we mourn President Mandela's passing we must ask ourselves the fundamental question - what shall we do to respond to the tasks of building a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and prosperous South Africa, a people-centred society free of hunger, poverty, disease and inequality, as well as Africa's renaissance, to whose attainment President Nelson Mandela dedicated his whole life? — Thabo Mbeki

It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out. — Michele Dominguez Greene

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar. — Michel De Montaigne

Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun. — Seneca The Younger

It was the room where they — Robert Jordan

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it. — Ayn Rand

I needed to find The Dress. You know, the once-in-a-lifetime dress guaranteed to make anyone fall in love with you. — Jenna Evans Welch

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008. — Carter F. Smith

I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on. — Kaskade

When the riot controls had been put into effect, and a nervous white population was waiting, it took little to set it off. In Wichita, a few white youths drove down into the black area and simply fired off guns. This brought black people out of their houses; in rage at seeing the harassment, they hurled stones or sticks at a passing car, and the battle was on. In that particular instance the police arrested the five whites who were armed and twelve young black men who had only rocks and sticks. All were jailed. The next morning, all were released on bail, but the bail set for the five armed whites was only one-fifth the amount set for the twelve unarmed black students. — John Howard Griffin

I have a burden on my soul. During my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things ... I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefields., and their mothers, brothers, and widows cried for them. And now this stands between me and God. — Otto Von Bismarck

In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

The gift is for you ... The surprise is for me. — Jonathan Safran Foer