We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.
Arthur AsheDrummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
Arthur AsheWe 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