Who has to have a soapbox when all you've ever needed is your voice? — Clint Smith Needed Copy Share Image
I think about the history of racism in this country all the time. — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Sometimes sports serves as a reprieve from politics, and sometimes it serves as an extension of it. — Clint Smith Extension Copy Share Image
I've been a follower of Arsenal Football Club since I was ten years old. — Clint Smith Arsenal Copy Share Image
Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded. — Clint Smith Dignity Copy Share Image
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. — Clint Smith Death Copy Share Image
Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth! — Clint Smith Books 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 Days 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
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 Affirm 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 Arsenal 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
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 Beats 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
Schools are the single largest lever of mobility in this country. When we commit to creating and enforcing laws that acknowledge the… — Clint Smith Country Copy Share Image
Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized… — Clint Smith Action Copy Share Image
When the U.S. team went on its historic run to the World Cup quarter-finals in 2002, I was thirteen years old. Each… — Clint Smith Effort Copy Share Image
The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will… — Clint Smith Amendment Copy Share Image
Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums… — Clint Smith Brotherhood 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
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
“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
“I thought about how Juneteenth is a holiday that inspires so much celebration, born from circumstances imbued with so much tragedy. Enslavers… — Clint Smith African american history Copy Share Image
“I watched these young people read to the audience parts of history that placed our country in context. I felt, in that… — Clint Smith African american history Copy Share Image
“Donna and Grace and so many people—specifically white people—often have understood slavery, and those held in its grip, only in abstract terms.… — Clint Smith African americans Copy Share Image
Older prisoners are more expensive for prisons to house because they tend to require more health care over time. — Clint Smith Health Copy Share Image
Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot. — Clint Smith Always Copy Share Image
It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality. — Clint Smith History Copy Share Image
The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win. — Clint Smith Cheat 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
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is. — Clint Smith Only Copy Share Image
