Booker T Quotes

Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I'm so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

Some of my best friends are white.

There is no one American beauty or just one beautiful color in the pantheon, especially in regards to black people - there is no better color.

I'm a very political person. I'm a very opinionated person. I have a lot of opinions about LGBTQ representations in the media, and it's not just a gay community issue. It's a black issue. It's an Asian issue. It's a minority issue in general.

I love black people, I love white people, I love yellow people.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

Who would've thought that this little girl in the ghetto in Philly would be playing the first black lesbian superhero on network TV?

'Drive for Diversity' puts people behind the wheel that would never have had the opportunity. Nascar sponsors individual teams who have a person of color, somebody who would not have the opportunity otherwise. And then they're noticed by bigger teams - it's like minor-league baseball.

I've not just played for England. I've done it for all the black players out there - to prove that they can do it.

Floyd Thompson, a white man, desegregated NASA. Period.

It's actually OK to be unique and have your own contributions, to celebrate what it means to be black, how we've survived and thrived through the worst conditions possible.

Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

I'm not for having to support everything that's black, because I definitely don't. But I do feel like it is imperative for us to see that we are not a monolithic people.

For me, personally, on the inside, the best moment was winning my first championship.

I see similarities between Jackie Robinson and myself.