Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped … - Arthur Ashe

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I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

Arthur Ashe

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like also to see some black hero do well in the face of adversity.

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