Ralph Wiley quotes
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“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”
-- Ralph WileySource : Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books
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“A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.”
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“Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.”
-- Ralph WileySource : Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press
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“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”
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Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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“There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.”
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“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”
Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial
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“We must take the profit out of prejudice.”
Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.71, The Forlorn Press
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