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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Yeah, I’m sure there are stereotypes of Asian people.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

It’s not like that often, I mean, I suppose out of a ratio of 10 fans maybe like 1 or 2 of ’em might be Asian, and maybe every second or third time they might bring up something that they’re Asian and I’m Asian.

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.