Ethnic Distinction Quotes

Racial harmony does not mean racial mixing.

I am from Hawaii. But I am not Hawaiian. I am full Samoan.

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

You may set the Negro free, but you cannot make him otherwise than an alien to the European.

I would never try and play like Harry James, because I don't like his tone - for me. It's just white. You know what I mean? He has what we black trumpet players call a white sound. But it's for white music ... I can tell a white trumpet player, just listening to a record. There'll be something he'll do that'll let me know that he's white.

... a male person, including an Indian and excluding a person of Mongolian or Chinese race.

Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

Blacks have a special history, since they were enslaved and were here as early as the first Americans. I hate to sound like a liberal but these are facts. That makes blacks a special group.