Accepted Quote by Willie Wells

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

— Katrina Adams

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we…

— Jackie Robinson

In the Negro Leagues, I played every day.

— Buck Leonard

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the…

— Ruud Gullit

Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was…

— Clint Smith

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

When I signed for Spurs, I was the only black player in the team.

— Chris Hughton

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

— Ahmad Rashad

If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal.…

— Venus Williams

I was born in a Negro town.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the…

— Jesse Owens

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

— Malcolm X