I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little … - Arthur Ashe

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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

Arthur Ashe

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

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