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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
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Tavis Smiley
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 13
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Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
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We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this suggests to me that water is going to be the resource into the future that we're really - that countries, nations, are going to be fighting for control over.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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There are enough bad films coming out of this town already without the process being more democratized. I'm a guy who loves democracy. I'm all for democratizing any process, but I think there is a price to pay for that.
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Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
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Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.
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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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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.
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When I'm at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.
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Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.
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[John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text a memoir, in fact.
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I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
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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.
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I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.
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The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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