My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
ARTHUR ASHEI guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
More Arthur Ashe Quotes
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
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I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it’s like to be stepped on, I know what it’s like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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I spent many, many hours in libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.
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If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.
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