Quotes from George Elliott Clarke

Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.

All books are merely delayed dust.

In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech. Pablo, your words are rain I run through, Grass I sleep in.

The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars.

Roses got thorns. And words do lie. I've seen love die.

I know that this traitor language can turn One truth into another or even Against itself. Yet, it is all we have.

Nunca es tarde para ser lo que deberías haber sido.

Redefine the sport in terms of your expertise, in terms of your talent, in terms of your strength, in terms of your flair. Make it interesting. Make it something that people want to watch.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.