Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Race Quotes
HistoryLeadershipPoliticsPublic OpinionRace In 2008, Barack Obama had all the wind at his back, everything going for him. He was an African-American at a time when the country was eager to do that. The Republicans had, in the view of many of us, pretty much disgraced themselves at home and abroad for eight years.
IdentityPerseveranceRaceRepresentationSelf-Expression I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
EmpathyEqualityRaceSelf WorthUnderstanding Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.
Cultural RepresentationHeroismIdentityPerceptionRace I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
DiversityEducationExperienceRaceSegregation In all my days of schooling, from preschool all the way up to 12th grade, there was not one white person in my class. Literally zero.
PerceptionRaceSocietySportsViolence Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
BasketballIrritationRaceSports The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
