There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. Michael Eric Dyson
Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels. Juan Marichal
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. E. B. White Joy, Run, Laundry Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/e_b_white.html#BkZVLgqggKkifigO.99E.B.White
What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. Kareem Abdul Jabbar
When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game. Fuzzy Zoeller
When white supremacy becomes institutional, it begins to harm the very people who are not simply outside of it because of their race, it begins to harm the folk who look like the folk who want to be in charge. Martin Luther King, Jr., understood this, Malcolm X understood this, James Baldwin really understood this. Michael Eric Dyson
White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. Michael Eric Dyson
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder. Michael Eric Dyson
With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything. Don Cooper
Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know. Michael Vick
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. Charles Barkley