Quotes on African American

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

I believe that each of us-no matter what our age or background or walk of life-each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life....Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.

When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.

If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now, I dont necessarily feel I have to play for black people, because obviously theyre doing everything in all sports. If I can go out there and play for myself and not feel I have to stand for something other than what I want to do, thats good.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.