12 Tavis Smiley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tavis Smiley

American Author

Born: Sep 13, 1964

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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for? Tavis Smiley

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I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child. Tavis Smiley

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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture. Tavis Smiley

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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better. Tavis Smiley

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My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King. Tavis Smiley

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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' Tavis Smiley

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me. Tavis Smiley

Me Clear Between Most Concerns America Multicultural Gap Ever Widening

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population. Tavis Smiley

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president. Tavis Smiley

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