Quote by Arthur Ashe
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. - Arthur Ashe

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. – Arthur Ashe

Other quotes by Arthur Ashe

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. – Arthur Ashe

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Competition
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. – Arthur Ashe

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Friendship
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. – Arthur Ashe

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Time
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

Category:
Black History

I am an invisible man…. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. – Ralph Ellison

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Black History

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt

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Black History

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity. – Desmond Tutu

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Black History

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Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and its not offensive, its funny? – Christopher Walken

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funny

Im over the moon to be involved in the Doctor Who Christmas special. I cant quite believe it as its a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever. – Katherine Jenkins

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Birthday

Ive become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. – Toby Young

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Failure

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President Im beginning to believe it. – Clarence Darrow

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Politics