121 Quotes by Tavis Smiley

Take your focus off how others see you. Cease being obsessed with the need to impress your friends and your foes. Keep your concern on the vision you see in the mirror. Don’t allow the approval of others to obstruct your view of you.

I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the movie together, and sometimes you give a whole performance that's just been cut up, and maybe it's better for it, absolutely, but you still have to deal with the loss of that.

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

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

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..

Why don’t we scale up those things that do work.

I feel like I’ve been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I’m embarrassed, if I’m slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.