A biography for Jemele Hillhasn’t been written yet.
“My father played hockey until he was 18.”
“Newsflash: competitive athletes fight sometimes. They also are egomaniacs.”
“It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.”
“If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.”
“I've been through difficult swings in my career.”
“Black men constantly receive the message that they can't make it in life through using legitimate means, and the only way they gain society's respect is through the street game.”
“Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.”
“When a country doesn't respect Black lives, maybe it doesn't deserve to be entertained by Black athletes.”
“America hasn't been able to grapple with the uncomfortable reality that police brutality is encoded in this country's DNA.”
“Just because I'm a black woman doesn't mean I've got an automatic sensitivity chip for cultures outside of my own.”
“Two things you almost always see when 'MTV Cribs' features a black superstar: a poster of Tony Montana and a poster of the Godfather. Montana and Michael Corleone, though fictional, are considered heroes by young black men everywhere.”
“A moral stand by the sports industry is what finally settled the long, unfortunate debate over Mississippi's state flag.”
“The thirst for liberation and equality can never come at the expense of dehumanizing other marginalized groups - especially at a time when hate crimes against Jews have increased significantly.”
“I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.”
“Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.”
“Every day, we read about athletes who let their sport define them.”
“When I was at The Orlando Sentinel as a sports columnist, it was embarrassing that I was the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America.”
“One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.”
“This country's response to the coronavirus has been disastrous because of poor, incompetent leadership at the national and state levels. More than 4.6 million Americans have become infected with the coronavirus. Basic safety precautions have been manipulated into a political issue.”
“Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.”