I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

-Zora Neale Hurston from "How It Feels to Be Colored Me", in The World Tomorrow (May 1928)

“I am Soledad Pierre. I am a Haitian girl. I am a basketball player. I am a gift of God.”

From: "Left Behind: A City Team’s Struggle Shows Disparity in Girls’ Sports" by Katie Thomas, The New York Times, June 13, 2009

The Gillom Sports Center at Ole Miss is named after basketball legends and sisters Jennifer and Peggie Gillom.

"It's hard to comprehend; it's so amazing. Race always becomes an issue, especially at Ole Miss because of the past. To have two black women (so honored), it makes it more humbling for Peggie and myself. It makes you feel like you've done something right in your life."

Jennifer Gillom to the Knoxville News Sentinel

"I don't feel like I should be ashamed of doing this, but I feel bad
for her and I hope she doesn't think bad of me but some dummy had to
do this and it just so happen that I was the fool that done it."
Martin Jordan of Levelland, Texas to KCBD-TV about selling the
contents of a storage unit containing valuable items of basketball
legend Sheryl Swoopes on eBay.

University of Hawaii women's basketball candidate George Wolfe coaches hoops, George C. Wolfe writes absurdist plays. UH's coach search reminds me of latter's works, not sports.