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.
CHARLES BARKLEYI just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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I don’t think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
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We’re just playing basketball. It’s not like we’re going out to have unprotected sex with Magic.
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Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn’t know anything about it personally but I’ve heard about it through the grapevine.
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I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it’s about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich 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 know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
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I don’t hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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I have nothing against old people; I want to be one myself one day.
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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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The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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People always say he can run and he can jump. So can a deer and you wouldn’t put a deer in the game.
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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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I’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.
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I came to the realization a couple months ago that I am fat. If you get tired from walking – and that’s all that golf is – then you are officially fat.
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