23 Quotes by John Amaechi

In a country like America there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

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.

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.

My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.

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.