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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

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Arthur Ashe
Age: 49 †
Born: 1943
Born: July 10
Died: 1993
Died: February 6
Military Officer
Tennis Player
Richmond
Virginia
Arthur Robert Ashe
Jr.
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Greatest
Humanity
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Possibilities
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Children
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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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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?
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Sometimes, a defeat can be more beautiful and satisfying than certain victories. The English have a point in insisting that it matters not who won or lost, but how you played the game.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and dress is just a completely different culture.
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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
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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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Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.
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I have always drawn strength from being close to home.
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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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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish that was for me.
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
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I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Start where you are, use what you have.
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