Tavis Smiley Quotes

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Control

• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Learn

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak, Hear

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Place

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Better

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, High

• 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

  Topics in Country, Love

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy – I want to talk about the movie in a second – but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in History, Job

  Tags in Time

• We believe that when you make Black America better – you make all of America better.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Better

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Administration

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in America

  Tags in Nonsense

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  History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

   

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in History

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in Respect

• 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

  Topics in Country

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clear, Gap

• That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don’t expect them to learn, if you don’t expect them to succeed – then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

• 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

  Topics in Country

• We – again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Again

• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boy

Tavis Smiley (34)

Birth:	13th September, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

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