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

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Source : "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

Tavis Smiley

#School Quotes #Boys Quotes #Black Quotes

“Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”
“There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.”
“Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.”
“I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.”

Source : "A Taste of My Life (John Barrowman)". Talk-Show, March 13, 2007.
“I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.”
“The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.”
“I don't have 30 days and 30 nights, to show you why all the hoochies say there's nothing finer than Scott Steiner, but all I need is one night to have your wife call me for the rest of her life, the big bad booty daddy, so this goes to all my freaks out there, Big Poppa Pump is your hook up, hollar if you hear me.”

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