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Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
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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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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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.
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Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.
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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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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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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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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.
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I don't think I'd live anything over, even though I've made a lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I'm not one to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I'll take my life the way it is.
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Live just because or live your life for a cause
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Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.
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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?
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I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
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I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.
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Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
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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 think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
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Every community has a Martin Luther King Boulevard. It's the cornerstone we all know. It's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where Walmart stands together with your community to make every day better.
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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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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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