African american Quote by Anne Northup

“Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.”

— E.O. Wilson

In Africa, kids don't look at black athletes and say, 'They're different from us.' They look at them and say, 'That can be me.'

— Luol Deng

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories…

— Arthur Ashe

Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious…

— Ann Coulter

Sometimes women's soccer can be political.

— Jessica McDonald

Racism in football is not a little problem; it's a big problem, a problem that is more alive than people realize.

— Jozy Altidore

The opportunities for black cultures need to change and we need to get more culture in higher positions in football, because I think the…

— Andre Gray

It's often been discussed, no-one has really taken it up, but I do have a tendency when I speak to everybody, certainly black players…

— Dwight Yorke

It's a life issue more than anything when you're dealing with racism anywhere... It's a life issue - bigger than sports, bigger than football.

— Bob Stoops

What's a soccer mom but a general category that hides great variation?

— Zeynep Tufekci

“Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But…

— Leith Mullings

What I say about myself, black footballers or black pop stars is that we have been 'elevated out of blackness.' Because when people see…

— John Barnes