6 Quotes by Eugene Robinson

Black Americans at the top of the scale, with incomes of more than $100,000 a year, were most likely to cling to the more traditional view that “blacks can still be thought of as a single race because they have so much in common.” Perhaps we should begin to think of racial solidarity as a luxury item.

Nobody is interested in your contrition. They are only interested in your admission.

We had high hopes going into that year, we really did. We had a coach who had won the Super Bowl. But they forgot he would need a little talent.

They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.

They saw that there was no other hand in this story.

It just seems so odd, so surreal. I'm still like, 'I don't believe it.' When I saw it flash on the television -- 1961 to 2004 -- I was just like, 'I'm not going to try to fight back any more tears. I'm just going to cry.