"I would like to flood South Africa with……" — Arthur Ashe
"I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there."
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Arthur Ashe
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64 Quotes by Arthur Ashe
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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am…
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving…
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
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You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
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I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single…
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In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more…
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