I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.
Jim BrownRead
AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Jim Brown emphasizes the importance of storytelling over preaching when discussing race.
In this quote, Jim Brown articulates the idea that discussing sensitive topics like race should not center on preaching or moralizing, as this often alienates listeners. Instead, he advocates for sharing personal stories, which can foster understanding and connection, making the conversation more relatable and impactful.
Themes
RaceStorytellingCommunicationUnderstandingConnection
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting about race relations, to encourage open dialogue.
More from Jim Brown
All quotes →You cannot get me to be disloyal to a friend. You just can't do it. Loyalty is a part of what I live by. I didn't say I was going to be loyal to my friend because he was right. I'm going to be loyal to my friend because he's my friend.
Jim BrownRead
I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.
Jim BrownRead
Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
Jim BrownRead
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
Jim BrownRead
Capitalistic society teaches kids to be No. 1, but true self-esteem doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from winning the Super Bowl.
Jim BrownRead
Similar quotes
Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieRead
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Benjamin RushRead
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. MenckenRead
Drink up, boys, drink up and don’t worry, if we finish this bottle we’ll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won’t be the same as the one we’ve got now, but it’ll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don’t make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.
Roberto BolanoRead
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
St. VincentRead
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead