Tavis Smiley Quotes

• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in America

  Tags in Nonsense

• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in History, Job

  Tags in Time

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

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Better

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, ‘the soft bigotry of low expectations.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country, Love

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

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, High

• 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?

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Place

• I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Better

• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speak, Hear

• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Learn

• 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.

  Tavis Smiley

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Control

Tavis Smiley (34)

Birth:	13th September, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist

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