Glennon Doyle Melton

We all have this misunderstanding about heartbreak, which is we think we should avoid it. But what I think is that heartache is a clue toward the work we're supposed to be doing in the world. What breaks each person's heart is different - be it racial injustice, war, or animals. And when you figure out what it is that breaks yours, go toward it.

American Author

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I think being biracial is a different experience. I think that, and coming from the U.K., I feel as much white as I do black. And so it's really important for me to address these issues of identity in my work. But also, you know, we're always stronger when we work on, you know, what we have in common. And I love exploring that in my work.

English Actress

Jim Brown

I never had a father, really. My great-grandmother raised me. But I was in this country where I got help from people that were not of my same color. So when I come out of the box, I don't come out of the box as racial. I look for good people, and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

American Athlete

Jacqueline Woodson

My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world. My little brother is biracial. So race and economic class and sexuality - these were always issues that were a part of my life.

American Writer

John Lewis

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

American Politician

Fei-Fei Li

Governments can make a greater effort to encourage computer science education, especially among young girls, racial minorities, and other groups whose perspectives have been underrepresented in AI.

Chinese Scientist

Jess Row

The truth is that much of the plastic surgery we see today has a racial or ethnic component because it has to do with inherently racial concepts of physical perfection, like the 'Roman nose.

American Novelist

John Barnes

While we have to take personal responsibility for our actions, I have a great deal of empathy for people who are unconsciously racially biased, and indeed count myself among their number.

Robert Kennedy

The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.

Lynn Nottage

It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines.

American Playwright

Used when discussing social issues related to different racial groups or categories.

Common Contexts

Conversations about racial matters can be delicate and require respectful language.

Sensitive Topic

'Racial' in some collocations may imply inequality or problems among races.

Negative Tone

Refers to situations where different races are brought together harmoniously.

Unity Emphasized

Indicates an aspiration or effort to treat all races equally and without discrimination.

Positive Goal

Actions that are discriminatory based on race can lead to legal penalties.

Legal Consequences

Using 'racial' should not presuppose any bias, unless contextually relevant.

Avoid Assumptions

'Racial' aspects can be neutral or positive, depending on the situation.

Not Always Negative

 who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things. You have responded to him. I'm not even going to dignify what he said, but you responded. Why did you respond? Well, I think there are very inappropriate comments, and not only that, I've been really supportive of my peers and the people that I've worked with. I've been a pro for almost 20 years,

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 There were many problems with this line of thinking, among them the idea that intelligence was not only fixed and inherited, but also linked to a person’s race. Under the influence of eugenics, scientists used the results of the military initiative to make erroneous claims that certain racial groups

The dark history of IQ...

 history and culture is not a monolith and in a way it became kind of like a marketing tool to encourage individuals to migrate to move there that this is a place where you can live you can thrive and peacefully reside there were still palpable racial tensions there are

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 Think about how norms around marriage equality today are evolving. The fifth form of power is ideas. An idea, individual liberties, say, or racial equality, can generate boundless amounts of power if it motivates enough people to change their thinking and actions.

How to understand power...

 able to highlight my identities of being a black woman and of being a designer being a black woman I've had to acknowledge the long-term effects of racial and gender oppression and what it's meant on my life especially the reality of me growing up in poverty

Designing for a more...

 the studies showing systemic racism in every institution we housing segregation, job discrimination, the deeply racialized inequities in our schools and criminal justice system. And what really did it for me, and I know I'm not alone in this,

The lie that invented...

 and remains the most racially diverse state in the country. But the promotion of surfing was a far greater success. Today, surfing is a multi-billion dollar global industry, with tens of millions of enthusiasts worldwide.

The complicated history...

 These guys seem to live beneath the bridges of said superhighway -- And they also missed the memo about the enlightenment of the internet age. I remember being called highly colorful racial slurs

A Black man goes...

 even though I did not find God, I found a home in even today, in a world fractured by religious, ethnic, political, philosophical, and racial divides,

My failed mission to...

 laws in the south that legally supported racial discrimination seeing the civil rights movement as a threat to white rule the Klan went on the attack