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“The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.”

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Author:Jason Whitlock

“In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.”

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Author:Paul Beatty

“When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.”

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Author:Iman Shumpert

“You expect a basketball player to come with a white button-down, Balmain jeans, and Balenciagas. You expect that. But when I come with an extended button-down, camos, no socks, Louboutins that have spikes on them, and a bow tie with diamonds, you'll be like, "What? Who dressed him?"”

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Author:Iman Shumpert

“You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”

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Author:Charles Barkley

“I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.”

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Author:Dennis Rodman

“As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.”

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Author:Larry Bird

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”

“You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos”

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Author:George Carlin

“We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.”

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Book:Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley

Source: Sir Charles: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Barkley

“Poor white people and poor black people just don't know how much they have in common. Rich people don't give a damn about either group.”

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Book:I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

Source: I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It

“Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.”

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Author:Charles Barkley