Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smileyis an American talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show BET Talkon BET. After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth13 September 1964
CityGulfport, MS
CountryUnited States of America
Troubled times do call for troubled songs, songs that unsettle our souls and our spirits unapologetically.
I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.
We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.
Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.
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.
I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.
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
I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
My acting gives me my self-worth
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
Losing teaches you something
I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.
I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time
Fear, fear, breeds hopelessness. When you're afraid, you don't know what to believe in, you don't know what to hold on to. You're struggling to find something to believe in.