John Amaechi Quotes

• You can't be a part-time man of principle.

  John Amaechi

  Men, Principles, Part Time

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• Conocerte a ti mismo, saber adónde quieres llegar, combinar esas cosas te da los pasos pragmáticos.

  John Amaechi

  Knowing, Giving, Want

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Sois hachas, en un mundo de madera. Y la madera recuerda cuándo ha sido cortada, aunque el hacha lo olvide.

  John Amaechi

  Cutting, Axes, World

  Speech to students at Phillips Exeter Academy, 2007.

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• We need to get past the point where being black and a male means that I am likely to mug you for your wallet, likely to have a minus 15 on my IQ, likely to not go to college and likely to wear my pants below my arse.

  John Amaechi

  Mean, Past, College

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  Gay, Thinking, Color

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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

  John Amaechi

  Thinking, People, Coming Out

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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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.

  John Amaechi

  Trabajo, Pensar, Mejor Trabajo

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.

  John Amaechi

  Average, People, Needs

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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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.

  John Amaechi

  Sports, Morning, Gay

  "Walking Tall". news.bbc.co.uk. July 23, 2007.

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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.

  John Amaechi

  School, Thinking, Too Much

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  Smart, School, Kids

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  Deporte, Pensar, Jugar

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• I would just never want to have someone come out for the greater good who was a celebrity and then find them slipping into like Lohanville with alcohol or drugs or something else just because they couldn't cope.

  John Amaechi

  Alcohol, Drug, Want

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Men, Play

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

  John Amaechi

  Gestation Period, Years, Elephants

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat.

  John Amaechi

  Sweat, Nerd, Library

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• I've been captivated by the idea of being on a basketball court and being surrounded by people who made me look a little bit less like a freak.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Ideas, People

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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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.

  John Amaechi

  Pensamiento, Orden, Necesidades

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  School, Boys, Emotional

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Amaechi

  Deportes, Hogar, Atleta

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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

  John Amaechi

  Gay, Age

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• En la NBA necesitas un poco más que eso cuando tienes a Jordan delante. Necesitas un poco más que eso cuando está Barkley o Karl Malone o Shaq o quien sea. Necesitas mucho más que eso francamente si eres el chico inglés que no sabe saltar.

  John Amaechi

  Kids, Nba, Needs

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Creo que en estos momentos existe un conflicto innecesario entre los religiosos más vehementes y la comunidad LGBT. Creo que los extremos de la religión y la comunidad LGBT tienen un problema, y como muchas familias negras de Estados Unidos son más religiosas, creo que es ahí donde surge el conflicto.

  John Amaechi

  Religious, Thinking, Play

  "Big Think Interview With John Amaechi". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.

  John Amaechi

  Sex, Growing Up, School

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

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• I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Philosophy, Roles

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