Quotes from Jemele Hill

Our country has had a painful, racial history, and there are many issues that bear discussing.

I've found in conversations with people - and not just white people either, because I realize there are some Black people that voted for Trump - usually when I get in these conversations with people who voted for Trump, there was always some level of his bigotry that appealed to them. Banning Muslims, building a wall, it was always something.

Even for a billionaire, a divorce isn't easy.

I just hope that my success is in some way influencing other outlets to really be much more purposeful in promoting, advancing and recruiting people of color.

Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.

I think athletes are, in general, tired of so much of their persona being controlled by the media.

Race impacts 90 percent of our society - and I'm probably undershooting that figure. I find this fascinating and like to address it when pertinent.

If you've ever seen photos of LeBron James away from the basketball court, it's obvious he takes great pride in his appearance.

I routinely get e-mails from readers who are disgusted because they feel the race card is played too much and inappropriately. (By the way, can someone put the phrase 'race card' in a cryogenic chamber and never thaw it? It demeans what is still a real struggle).

Anyone who generates opinion for a living is going to get plenty of feedback, positive or negative. Some people indeed don't like the fact that I'm a woman with strong opinions. And if they disagree with me, they are quick to point out what my gender is. I chalk it up to being the nature of people.

I've been through difficult swings in my career.

As a society, there are times when we need to stand together against indecency and cruelty.

Just because I'm a black woman doesn't mean I've got an automatic sensitivity chip for cultures outside of my own.

There is no way American sports are any cleaner than cycling.

After my grandmother finished watching 'Lawrence Welk,' my dad would race to the TV and put on the weekly hockey game. He loved watching Henri Richard, Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk. My dad's seven brothers and sisters weren't particularly thrilled with his viewing choices.

Racism has never been outright gone in the history of this nation, but I think we've had moments where everybody has been really fed up with its presence.

Too often, black athletes are presented as angry, overly aggressive and overly sexual. Or sometimes, they're just plain emasculated.

Every day, we read about athletes who let their sport define them.

Trump delights in building his campaigns around white Americans' racial anxieties.

I had very simple goals. They weren't about destination or place. It was about being good.

Detroit is known as 'Hockeytown,' but the Lions are truly the soul of the city.

I don't know of any coach - black, red or green - who could have coached Lawrence Taylor better than Bill Parcells.

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting and dismantling the system of prejudices that enables the abuse of black people, but to demand silence and, sometimes, outright obedience.

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.