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I feel blessed to be in the broadcast business for 20 years. I believe that when you're this blessed, you have an obligation to pay it forward. That's what life is all about ultimately.

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Tavis Smiley
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 13
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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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Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
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I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
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Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle
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Losing teaches you something
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Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.
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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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I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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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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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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Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.
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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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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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I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
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He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.
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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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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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Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships.
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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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