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Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

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Tavis Smiley
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 13
Businessperson
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Talk Show Host
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Television Producer
Gulfport
Mississippi
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Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of all Americans are either in or near poverty. Poverty is certainly worse for African-Americans now than it was during King's lifetime.
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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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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?
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Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.
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I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
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There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.
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What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.
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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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I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.
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Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle
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Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.
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I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
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Live just because or live your life for a cause
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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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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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Losing teaches you something
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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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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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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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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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