Tavis Smiley

What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.

— Tavis Smiley

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

— Tavis Smiley

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited…

— Tavis Smiley

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been…

— Tavis Smiley

Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about…

— Tavis Smiley

I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.

— Tavis Smiley

This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't…

— Tavis Smiley

We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.

— Tavis Smiley

[In a blogosphere] everybody has an opinion now, but I don't really freaking care about - all opinions ain't created equal, because…

— Tavis Smiley

Every community has a Martin Luther King Boulevard. It's the cornerstone we all know. It's not just a street or boulevard, but…

— Tavis Smiley

We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle…

— Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and…

— Tavis Smiley

For me, like when you've put yourself out there emotionally, physically, and you've really put yourself on the line, for me, that…

— Tavis Smiley

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America…

— Tavis Smiley

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We…

— Tavis Smiley

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

— Tavis Smiley

I use the phrase "fellow citizen" all the time when referring to the - people always say, "The American people, the American…

— Tavis Smiley

Losing teaches you something

— Tavis Smiley

Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.

— Tavis Smiley

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion,…

— Tavis Smiley

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

— Tavis Smiley

In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

— Tavis Smiley

We think of - there are too many wars, of course, in the world as we speak, but my read on this…

— Tavis Smiley

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second…

— Tavis Smiley