Ralph Wiley Quotes

• Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

  Ralph Wiley

  Truth, Color, Justice

  Ralph Wiley (1993). “What Black People Should Do Now: Dispatches from Near the Vanguard”, Ballantine Books

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• A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.

  Ralph Wiley

  Giving Up, Real, Player

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• Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.

  Ralph Wiley

  Football, War, Men

  Ralph Wiley (2000). “Serenity: A Boxing Memoir”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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