Grayson Allen Quotes

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

There is a racist virus in the American blood stream...

It really bothers me when people say we live in a postracial America.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

LeBron is a great player and a great guy, but he's a drama queen.

'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire.

There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

A lot of problems that are going on aren't going to get better if we don't talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It's a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.

If you want to initiate a broader debate about racism, is it really healthy to create an atmosphere in which it is not only statues that are being toppled but a range of cultural artefacts, TV series, celebrities, columnists and controversial broadcasters?

We're not able to hide behind myths of this being a post-racial society because Donald Trump has outlined exactly how a large portion of America feels.

I think race in America is a huge one. That's something that needs to be confronted, certainly.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

Being in the public eye puts you in a fix, and people are always wanting to know what you are up to.

At Real Madrid, everything gets taken to extremes, as much for the good things as the bad things, so you have to adapt to the way that the press and the fans live through different situations.

I do not claim to be an expert on race in America.

The mantra for the Obama campaign and their surrogates has focused on one thing regarding race, which is to take every opportunity to depict the Republican Party a group of rich white racists.