F. Lee Bailey Quotes

The black world squirms beneath the feet of the white in impotent fury or sullen hate.

I want nothing to do with O.J. Simpson. I want that name so far behind me, I want it out of my life.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.

Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

There's not a racial divide in the city of Ferguson.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

Most people don't think about race as much as I do. They don't have to.

Slavery was our original sin. Race, our continuing dilemma.

The issue here is greedy people refusing to share with others ... There has been an unhealthy high turnout of white voters which will damage race relations because the Constitution has racial overtones.

If you seat these black buggers, the whole South will walk out.

A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.

One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.

I am not sure the issue of race in America will ever be completely solved.

If we are to learn anything from the tragic death of Michael Brown, we must first acknowledge that we have a race issue we are not addressing.

I'd rather have dinner with Don King than with Mark Furhman. But then, I'm American. I have no perspective.

Truthfully, I think anything involving Tebow opens people's eyes.

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

In America we talk about South Africa, but I tell people that apartheid is nothing compared to what is happening in my country where black oppresses black.

If you know anything about the issues in our country, you know we have a lot of deep-rooted anger and anxieties that spark a lot of passion. When you talk about our national anthem or the flag or race relations or the criminal justice system, it brings up a lot of those fears and insecurities.

Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history. Its fissures are forever present and not that far beneath the surface of every day life. To deny that is to risk being labeled delusional.