Katrina Adams Quotes
I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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Any successful black person will have to face suspicion within his or her own community about his or her loyalty to other blacks.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.
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Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.
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It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
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Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.
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The fans will talk about whatever. But when you're not doing your best, you're losing, you can't let all that get to your head. You focus and try to play hard. The fans, they will respect you for that.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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I was a player who was vying to do exactly what everyone else was doing, and I happened to be black.
