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I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Charles Barkley

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Charles Barkley
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: February 20
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Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.
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Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.
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Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.
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I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
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I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair.
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It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
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My message is simple: take control of your life
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They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.
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