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The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but…

— Harper Reed

All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white…

— Jimmy Carter

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And…

— Larry Bird

I remember going to stadiums and huge sections of the stand gave you racial abuse. It was never nice but it wasn't a surprise…

— Chris Hughton

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

— Jimmy Smith

My life was very compartmentalized. I went to a school that was all white, and then I went home and to my black family.

— Chirlane McCray

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

In the Sacramento of the 1950s, it was as though White simply hadn't had time enough to figure Brown out. It was a busy…

— Richard Rodriguez

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the…

— Jackie Robinson

I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able…

— Barry Larkin

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being…

— Sue Monk Kidd

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

— Bernice King