Uplifting Communities Quotes

Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.

There are young people all over the country who don’t always have the helping hand, the second chance that I had.

I want to be a great role model to let the kids, especially black kids, that it's possible to make it in this sport. I think we, as a black community, quit playing the game because we think it's a white man's sport. Or we think that since other black people don't play it, so why should I play it.

The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

That's a win for me, for people to be able to say, 'Faith, fatherhood, monogamy exists in hip-hop.'

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.

My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.

As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

I showed that once again a guy from the 'favela,' from the community, it taking over the world.

I come from a village where traditionally girls don't go out and play sport so I struggled a lot to come this far and to get to this position where I am at the Olympics.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

It's important to me for the world to see black men in different capacities - capacities in which they're probably not used to seeing them.