Tavis Smiley People Quotations

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.

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American people." I prefer the phrase fellow citizen because there's a power in that, there's a responsibility, there's a duty in using that phrase fellow citizen.

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category..