Ralph Wiley quotes

“Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.”
-- Ralph Wiley

Source : 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.”
-- Ralph Wiley

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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 Wiley

Source : Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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“Making a movie is, for me, like painting. I just enjoy the care that goes into every brushstroke and the choice of every color. I enjoy the intensity of it.”

“Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.”

“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

“The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.”

“Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.”

“There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.”

“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”

Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial

“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

“When I liberate others, I liberate myself.”