I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.
When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.
It was a no-brainer to get the Unified snowboarding race into X Games.
The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win situation, whether it's racial, cultural, religious or political.
It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism.
The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, which is to take every opportunity to depict the Republican Party a group of rich white racists.
Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.
Race was thick in the O.J. Simpson case from the very beginning, but it wasn't evident. And I think the O.J. Simpson case revealed that there is subtle race, and there is sophisticated race, and there's evident and observable race.
I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.
Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.
From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.
Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
I think 'Death Race 2000' is a classic, but it's a classic from the 1970s, and I think it's a particular kind of drive-in-exploitation movie satire masterpiece, and it was very much a movie of its time.
It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.
So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional.
I'm mixed race, and it's often hard for me to fit into period pieces.
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.
