Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that. Gail Devers
People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans. Bob Cousy
The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands. David Duval
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem. Bebe Moore Campbell
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. Joan Didion
As African-Americans, we often spend our time and energy blaming other people for the problems we see around us. Pearl Cleage
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. James A.Baldwin
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity. Nolan Ryan
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. Greg Lemond
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from. Max Brooks
I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.Kareem Abdul Jabbar
I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.Stephen Hawking
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good. Jim Ryun
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
In the minds of many Americans, if you are a radical Democrat or a Socialist, you are automatically a Communist. And if you are a Communist, then therefore you are an anti-American person and a person who is not a patriot. But nothing is further from the truth. Michael Eric Dyson
In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans. John Henrik Clarke
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Jared Diamond
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. Jared Diamond
Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up. Jack Lalanne