If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
Supporting black professional athletes was taken seriously in my home. — Clint Smith Athletes Copy Share Image
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup. — Clint Smith Better way Copy Share Image
The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
People create the sort of myths they want to believe about themselves. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth… — Clint Smith Connections Copy Share Image
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then… — Clint Smith Emotional Copy Share Image
'A Talk to Teachers' showed me that a teacher's work should reject the false pretense of being apolitical and, instead, confront the… — Clint Smith Education Copy Share Image
Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their… — Clint Smith Brave Copy Share Image
In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so… — Clint Smith Dance Copy Share Image
Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities. — Clint Smith Art Copy Share Image
To be an Arsenal fan is to convince yourself that you can no longer support a team that disappoints you, only to… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't,"… — Clint Smith Communication Copy Share Image
“it would be nice to be something in a museum one day because that’s what I’ve been told means you’ve lived a… — Clint Smith Life Copy Share Image
As we walked through the National Museum of African American History and Culture, I pushed my grandfather in a wheelchair he had… — Clint Smith African american Copy Share Image
Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using… — Clint Smith Art Copy Share Image
With 'Black Panther,' black artists were provided with the opportunity and agency to create art that captures the full range of their… — Clint Smith Art Copy Share Image
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives.… — Clint Smith Art Copy Share Image
Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms. — Clint Smith Culture Copy Share Image
Abolition seemed a fantasy when Frederick Douglass called for all slaves to be released. — Clint Smith Abolition Copy Share Image
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“do you know what it means for your existence to be defined by someone else’s intentions?” — Clint Smith Existence Copy Share Image
When we say that black lives matter, it's not because others don't: it's simply because we must affirm that we are worthy… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When the power of private prisons is diminished, so, too, is their ability to engage in back-door political lobbying that has an… — Clint Smith Ability Copy Share Image
I'm not sure that there are days of my life when I'm not confronted with racism. For some, that may seem hyperbolic,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results. — Clint Smith Action Copy Share Image
A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The U.S. prison system, over all, disproportionately affects black and brown people, but people of color are overrepresented to a greater degree… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While… — Clint Smith Football Copy Share Image
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the… — Clint Smith Culpability Copy Share Image
Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces… — Clint Smith Being Copy Share Image
