We’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
CHARLES BARKLEYPoor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
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I don’t hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
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He’ll never be Jordan. This clearly takes him out of the conversation. He can win as much as he wants to.
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I like to help poor people who got no chance. If rich people don’t, who will? Not other poor people, that’s for sure.
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But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
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Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we’re never going to be successful not because of you white people but because of other black people.
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You can talk without saying a thing. I don’t ever want to be that type of person.
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If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?
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If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
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When you’re black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It’s a dirty, dark secret; I’m glad it’s coming out.
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I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you’ll be successful, and that’s not fair.
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Just because you say something doesn’t make it controversial, and it doesn’t make you a bad person.
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There’s nobody you’d rather beat than your good friend.
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Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter’s old enough to take care of that herself.
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Social media is where losers go to feel important.
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