Assumption Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Because I'm black, people think I'm not capable of being delicate, only athletic.

— Michaela DePrince

I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.

— Katrina Adams

I was a Black man before I was a basketball player.

— Jerami Grant

I wanted to represent African-American athletes in a better way than what I saw when I grew up.

— Ahmad Rashad

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

— Paula Patton

As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this,…

— Octavia E. Butler

To be honest, because evidently they didnt like what I was doing, or what they thought I was doing. Thats how I look at…

— Big Meech

There was a point where people would mention that I was black everyday.

— Lil Tracy

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or…

— Kristanna Loken

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

— Samuel L. Jackson

Since I worked with Prince, people assumed that I was black.

— Apollonia Kotero