Always Quote by Edwin Moses

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I…

— Charles Barkley

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

— Jemele Hill

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and…

— Arthur Ashe

It's extremely important for white athletes to speak out for racial justice. Black people and the black community have been fighting this for years.…

— Breanna Stewart

Few would deny that blacks have become very dominant in athletics: football, basketball, track, now dominant in tennis and dominant in golf.

— Jesse Jackson

There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever…

— Jemele Hill

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

— Larry Bird

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

It pays to be the anti-Black scold on sports television.

— Jason Johnson

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

— Diana Ross

I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.

— Tyron Woodley

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