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.
CHARLES BARKLEYI don’t care what people think. people are stupid.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.
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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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White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I’m sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they’re stupid.
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I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’
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If you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
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If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
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I just thank God for Dennis [Rodman], cause he makes me look like a saint.
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I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
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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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Just because you say something doesn’t make it controversial, and it doesn’t make you a bad person.
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I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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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 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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You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They’re old. Old people don’t get healthy. They die.
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