Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Keep on being a star in your own right. Keep on defining yourself. Don't be defined by others.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism … In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.