It is still too early to tell how much race may matter in the bid for leadership.

"If you do good, color or race doesn't matter."

But I grew up thinking that in America race should not matter.

But race doesn't matter to me and my sister.

In an operation to repair a broken leg, for example, a patient's race doesn't matter.

I've never been to a place where race and class mattered less.

"Overwhelmingly the people of California have said race does not matter," she said.

But race, they argued, may matter less than class distinctions.

In writing it, Morrison says she has been trying to imagine language to describe a place where "race exists but doesn't matter."

Their race, gender or sexual orientation does not matter to me.