Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Race Quotes
IdentityPerseveranceRaceRepresentationSelf-Expression I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BiasIdentityPrejudiceRaceSociety Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'
PerceptionRaceSocietySportsViolence Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
