I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.