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"If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism."

"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."

"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying."
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"When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death."

"If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!"

"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

"Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis."

"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."

"I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now."

"I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility."
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