Able Quote by Jackie Mason

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

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it…

— Arthur Ashe

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 is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years,…

— Ayana Mathis

Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine.

— Dick Gregory

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

— Chaka Fattah

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What…

— Gilbert Gottfried

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

— Larry Bird

Black athletes are always under more scrutiny.

— Edwin Moses

“When young Black boys learn that there are no limits to our possibilities on the basketball courts, we create the athletic genius of Michael…

— Na'im Akbar

I do believe 100 percent that Black lives matter and that the cause to achieve and pursue equality supersedes basketball.

— Doris Burke

“We "BLACKS" we have many talents and many great things we can do in life...but we just don't have the ability to try.”

— Ralph Ramovha