Quotes by John Amaechi

John Amaechi

Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you’re black you’re not supposed to be that smart and if you… as a boy you’re not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you’ve got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.

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Smart

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

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I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I’ve done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I’m a ‘big, black, British, gay guy’. That was frustrating at times.

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I don’t need to think that I’m being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that’s moral.

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I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don’t want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

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I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was… social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn’t even think about it too much.

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Too Much

I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

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Gay

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

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Role Models

Thinking

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.

Color

Gay

Thinking

I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they’re doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn’t finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they’re an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they’ve got practice.

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Quotes by John Amaechi

John Amaechi

I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.

I consider myself a pretty rounded guy. I’ve done pretty elite things in business, sport and academics and all of a sudden I woke up one morning and I’m a ‘big, black, British, gay guy’. That was frustrating at times.

I don’t need to think that I’m being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that’s moral.

I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don’t want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was… social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn’t even think about it too much.

I suppose I knew I was gay at age 11 or so.

I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models.

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.

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