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I think it's too easy to just...

I think it's too easy to just say that there is a direct and necessary conflict between black identity and gay identity. I think it's more nuanced than that simply because I think black is a color and then people layer on top of it all kinds of socio-cultural elements.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I was a man who played basket...

I was a man who played basketball and after I played basketball and before I played basketball I was going to be a psychologist, whereas most people who play their occupation is their definition - and then when they stop doing who they are, they become nothing.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I think that we ill-prepare a...

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

Combining the lack of emotiona...

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I grew up thinking the best jo...

I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I don't need to think that I'm...

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I always think coming out is s...

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I consider myself a pretty rou...

I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I've done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I'm a 'big, black, British, gay guy'. That was frustrating at times

John Amaechi 29 quotes

You are axes, in a world of wo...

You are axes, in a world of wood. And the wood remembers when it has been cut, even if the axe forgets.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

You can't be a part-time man o...

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

In my experience, it's only pe...

In my experience, it's only people who don't play sport at a professional level who think that there is anything remotely erotic about a locker room.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in t...

I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I've been captivated by the id...

I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I'd probably have to leave hom...

I'd probably have to leave home in order to become a basketball player of any note.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

Knowing yourself, knowing wher...

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I suppose I knew I was gay at ...

I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I thought kissing was good wit...

I thought kissing was good with girls, but I always thought you know it probably could be better, so there was nothing really...

John Amaechi 29 quotes

There was certainly nothing re...

There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I just wanted to fit in, so pr...

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sl...

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

John Amaechi 29 quotes

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