Kyler Murray Quotes

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

One must learn how to be black in America.

I don't think it's up to black athletes to get involved in political or racial issues.

James Brown's life was really a metaphor for our inability to talk about matters like race and class in America.

Someone with a nice tan needs to say this: All lives matter.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a slob or anything like that... I just don't have to worry about the outside opinions of what people are saying.

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

I think 'Holler If Ya Hear Me' is almost 'A Raisin in the Sun' 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it's about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It's still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.

I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.

Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.

What I wanted to do was to look at the powerlessness that I felt as - and continue to feel at times - as a black man in the American streets. I know what it feels like to walk through the streets, knowing what it is to be in this body and how certain people respond to that body.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

I am thrilled and proud of Benjamin Watson for speaking up on behalf of innocent black lives, traditionally an unpopular stance in the mainstream media.

I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.

Black artists deserve the opportunity to create work without the burden of alleviating the social ills plaguing many black communities.

If you're real, you've never got anything to hide away from. You're not trying to fake anything, you're not trying to have this other persona - you're just yourself. And if I could be myself for as long as possible, I will.

There's an anecdote that's really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop.

I've said numerous times the hardest job in America isn't being a professional athlete. It's not being a matador or having some job that puts your life at risk. The hardest job in America is being black, because it's the one thing you can't outrun.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

Rap or hip-hop music emerged in the West because of the atrocities against the Blacks. Their lyrics had a certain style of rebellion and it was quite personal.

I'm a student of Ice Cube and Scarface, which means the stuff I rap about is not radio-friendly, and it's very opinionated. and it's very much from the perspective of a black man in America, and our opinion ain't always popular when we have a political opinion.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.