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.
  • Staff, S. I.. The Unrelenting: Most Powerful Women in Sports (in en-us). Sports Illustrated.

• I know that I'm constitutionally incapable of being talked down to. ^{[citation needed]}

• Barriers are constantly and arbitrarily erected with systems and institutional power telling people what is and is not possible.^{[citation needed]}

• 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.
  • Gelles, David (September 11, 2020). "She Helped Put ‘Black Lives Matter’ on N.B.A. Courts" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved on January 6, 2022.