Being black or white isn’t an accomplishment. What you do with your life – or what you accomplish with your life – dictates what you should be proud of.
CHARLES BARKLEYIf ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
More Charles Barkley Quotes
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Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he’s been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.
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The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.
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He’s got to bring something stronger than that. That’s like bringing milk to a bar, it’s not strong enough
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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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What does politically correct mean? If you’re fat, don’t ask me if you’re fat, because I’m gonna tell you the truth. You’re fat.
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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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When you get arrested it’s in big letters. When you get acquitted it’s in small letters.
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The older I get, the faster I was.
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Poor white people and poor black people just don’t know how much they have in common. Rich people don’t give a damn about either group.
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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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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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It’s the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.
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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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I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.
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I’d never buy my girl a watch… she’s already got a clock over the stove.
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