100 Quotes by Jemele Hill

Newsflash: competitive athletes fight sometimes. They also are egomaniacs.

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling the system of prejudices that enables the abuse of black people, but to demand silence and, sometimes, outright obedience.

When NASCAR drivers blast one another with their cars out of anger it isn't symptomatic of what's wrong with white people. So please don't turn a silly NBA fight into a town hall meeting about what's wrong with African Americans - even though, unfortunately, something like this somehow winds up reflecting poorly on the entire black community.

As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.

The things that make for a good journalist - or for that matter, make for good journalism - they've never changed since the craft was invented.

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives and what's expected of them.

While America is generally a violent place, no culture in this country glorifies violence more than the African-American community. And consequently, no other racial group is as disproportionately affected by it.

Athletes are no different than many of us.

I think that a lot of people, especially as technology began to speed up and we became more distant, we kind of started to lose our appreciation for human contact and gathering and friendships and a lot of the things that we really took for granted.