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Blacks Quotes by Arthur Ashe
- We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is…
- There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress…
- I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
- Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the…
- There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early…
More Blacks Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must… — Steven Biko
- What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks
- My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in… — John Henrik Clarke
- Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear. — Maya Angelou
- We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors… — Jeff Sessions
- The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh
- The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that… — Steven Biko
- I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government. — Frances Farenthold
- Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison
- When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson
- All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun… — Leontyne Price