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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

#believe #better #black #black america #community

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

— Tavis Smiley

#even #finish #high #high school #percent

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

#dr #form #get #hear #helping

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

#case #country #expect #expectations #learn

For there are better sides to life And I should know because I've seen them But not very often ↗

— Morrissey

#life #life

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. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#does #education #know #make #priority

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

#bad #bad idea #beginning #first #formulation

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. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#between #clear #concerns #ever #gap

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#answer #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #few

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. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#country #facts #give #i #ideological