Keenly aware of how little access even the great icons of Black America had to mass media.
"How often do you accomplish something that's historic? Part of what makes life important for black people is taking notice of the markers, the groundbreaking moments…. And if I'm not out there shaking the trees, who's going to recognize it and give it the appropriate respect?"
| That's a quote from "Is there anything he isn't doing?," Patrick Goldstein's Los Angeles Times profile of Tavis Smiley
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