Chris Hughton Quotes

I feel like there should be more black head coaches.

I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.

I think the fact that we are trying to get as many young black and ethnic coaches involved in the game through campaigns to encourage that are important.

Today, we have come a distance. We have made a lot of progress. That cannot be denied. You cannot dispute the fact that our country is so different from 50 years ago. But we still have problems. There are too many people that have been left out and left behind, and they are African American, they are White, Latino, Asian American, and Native American.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

There's no reason that there has to be a fringe network that illuminates an urban or a multiethnic experience.

I'm absolutely delighted because I'm part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race.

I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

You have little representation of young black men in the business sector, so you have children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods who don't hear discussions at the dinner table about what goes on in business. It's almost as if we have two nations.

As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

African-Americans are underrepresented.

I thought the Navy at times resembled a Southern plantation that had somehow escaped the Civil War. Blacks swabbed the decks, shined shoes, did the cooking, washed the dishes, and served the food. Virtually no other jobs were open to them.

Black people are taken for granted by the Democratic Party and not even sought after by the Republican Party.

To be a black in a white society isn’t to stand on level and equal ground. While the races may stand side be side, whites stand on history’s mountain and blacks stand in history’s hollow. Until we overcome unequal history we cannot overcome unequal opportunity.

Visible minorities lead in education but trail in income.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

For too long, I think the African-American community has been taken for granted by one party and completely ignored by the other. It is not acceptable. It's not good for the parties, for the country, or for the community.

When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'

Trump just looks stupid trying to appeal to blacks and Latinos.