"I think there are white alumni out there who wouldn't mind having an African American president of their school, but would be reluctant to have an African American coach, because he represents the school so. I think it's just sheer backward racism."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Frank Deford

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #White Quotes

“Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.”
“There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.”
“Practice to beat the best.”
“I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.”
“I hear so many of the young people today sing and I think they have a good voice, yet I wonder if they'll ever know that they sound alike.”
“No one ever loved you like him. And no one ever took it away so completely. But it's here. Look around.”
“Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.”

Source : Jane Auer Bowles (1978). “My sister's hand in mine: an expanded edition of the collected works of Jane Bowles”, Ecco Pr
“True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.”

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