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thats it. >> new ball. >> shots are 2-2. >> got by him. >> comes back with it! >> you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while youre playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razors edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my bodys floating within myself. >> the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs...

thats it. [ applause ] >> 2-2. >> comes back with it! >> you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while youre playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razors edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my bodys floating within myself. >> the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and forth between white baselines in all-white country clubs....

>> its inevitable that you will be referred to as the first negro this and the first negro that. are there still country clubs in this country where you wouldnt be welcome? >> oh, sure. yes. >> really? >> yes. there are some tournaments i cant play in alabama or louisiana. if they dont want me its okay with me. >> i majored in business at ucla. that was a very busy time in my classes and also practicing with the team. but when black students from black colleges in the south were getting their he...

Being a black southerner it was taboo especially when you have been taught and the ancestors during and after slavery were taught that the white woman is untouchable and just not to be defiled and not to have anything to do with lesser beings so you have a natural curiosity about white women. every southern black man does. but in california nobody bats an eye about interracial dating. a period of exploration for me. it was liberating. >> his thought patterns for his life were not relegated to wh...