Baseball Quote by Reggie Jackson

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is

— Reggie Jackson

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something…

— Willie Mays

We used to have an all-Black baseball team, all Black stars and when White folks took Jackie Robinson and brought him into the major…

— Louis Farrakhan

You can play football and be the next Jim Brown or play baseball and be the next Reggie Jackson.

— Reggie Jackson

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted…

— Reggie Jackson

“The black newspaper writers were nearly unanimous in their support for integration, and so were the owners of Negro-league teams, even though Jim Crow…

— Jonathan Eig

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school.…

— Monte Irvin

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who…

— Jackie Robinson

All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.

— Charles Woodson

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just…

— Lena Waithe

The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

— Anonymous

It's very important to see a black gay teen represented.

— Ncuti Gatwa

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

It's important for Black and Latino men to go to the doctor in general. We don't get checked up enough unless something hurts or…

— Jadakiss

The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm…

— Harry Lennix