Michele A. Roberts

Michelle A. Roberts (born 1956) is an American attorney and former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. She was the first woman to hold that position and the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America.

Quotes

 * All I want is to be treated with respect and have my professionalism be honored. People who are out to get you either to destroy you, on the one extreme, or simply to humiliate and insult you or disrespect you.


 * I know that I'm constitutionally incapable of being talked down to.


 * Barriers are constantly and arbitrarily erected with systems and institutional power telling people what is and is not possible.


 * I didn’t take the job with the intention of breaking any glass ceilings. I’m not an activist, I’m just Michele.
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 * To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.