The 84+ Tavis Smiley Quotes

When It Comes To The President, We Have To Respect Him, We Have To Protect Him, And We Have To Correct Him. And In My Career, Since He'd Been On The National Stage At Least, I've Had - I've Always Respected The President.

What Determines Your Altitude In Life Is Your Attitude.

Jamestown Changed The World In Many Ways, But Perhaps It Shaped Our Nation Most Profoundly The Day Africans Arrived. I Can't Think Of A More Relevant Place To Talk About The Issues Facing Our Community Today Than The Place Where African Culture Became American Culture.

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.

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.

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.

When I'm At The Premiere And I See The Film In Its Entirety, I Forget Plot, I Forget The Story, I Forget What My Character Goes Through, Because I Really Do Just Let It Go.

If You Don't Have Courage, You Can't Practice Any Of The Other Virtues.

Life Is About Committing Ourselves On A Daily Basis To The Best In Us. Freedom Is A State Of Mind. Freedom Is An Attitude. Freedom Is A Spirit. You May Be Behind Bars, But You Still Have The Capacity To Be Free. I've Visited Some People Behind Bars Who Are Freer Than Negroes I See Running Around Every Day. Being In Jail, Or Poor, Or Uneducated Doesn't Determine How Free You Can Be. 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.

I'm Talking About France And Germany And Italy And Spain - New Friend Germany - And I Love That Story, How They Lead The World In Some Things That The World Needs Leadership In. Amongst Them We're The Only Ones Without National Healthcare. Can't Go To A Hospital And Not Worry About Falling Into Bankruptcy. They Go To University Free. We're Killing Our Students With Debt. That Scares Me.

Having To Try And Going Through The Trials And Tribulations To Actually Overcome, To Get There To Win, To Triumph, That's What Makes Life Interesting

I Think A Lot Of People Who Go To Drama School Have This Ease With The Text And They All Have Five Monologues That They Know By Heart, And I Never Had That. I've Done Chekov And I've Done Moliere And I've Done Classic Stuff