Being Quote by Martellus Bennett

Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be valued by…

— Martellus Bennett

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

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

Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic,…

— Ashton Sanders

“Black Fatherhood is an incomparable gift to Black men that truly comprehend what it means to be called dad, daddy, father, or pops. What…

— Stephanie Lahart

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

— Jemele Hill

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people…

— Martellus Bennett

There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is…

— Clint Smith

There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how…

— LL Cool J

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

— Jesse Jackson

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

— Ryan Giggs

Dad never liked American sports the way he liked European sports. Gymnastics, soccer, even circus acts - those were the things he wanted to…

— John Havlicek