Seguan Barkley Quotes

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. ~ Charles Barkley

Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice. ~ Charles Barkley

I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan. ~ Charles Barkley

Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while. ~ Charles Barkley

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'". ~ Elizabeth F. Barkley

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear. ~ Shannon Miller

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people. ~ Charles Barkley

Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen. ~ Brad Barkley

I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do. ~ Charles Barkley

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor. ~ Charles Barkley

1. Close Friend, someone who got yo back, yo "main nigga."
2. Rooted in blackness and the Black experience. From a middle-aged social worker: "That Brotha ain like dem ol e-lights, he real, he a shonuff nigga"
3. Generic, neutral refrence to African Americans. From a 30 something college educated Sista: "The party was live, it was wall to wall niggaz there"
4. A sista's man/lover/partner. from the beauty shop. "Guess we ain gon be seein too much of girlfriend no mo since she got herself a new nigga" From Hip Hop artist Foxy brown, "Ain no nigga like the on I got."
5. Rebellious, fearless unconventional, in-yo-face Black man. From former NBA superstar Charles Barkley, "Nineties niggas... The DailyNews, The Inquirer has been on my back... They want their Black Athletes to be Uncle Tom. I told you white boys you've never heard of a 90s nigga. We do what we want to do" quoted in The Source, December 1992).
6. Vulgar, disrespectful Black Person, antisocial, conforming to negative sterotype of African Americans. From former Hip Hop group Arrested Development, in their best-selling song, "People Everyday" 1992: A black man actin like a nigga... got stomped by an African"
7. A cool, down person, rooted in Hip Hop and black culture, regardless of race, used today by non-blacks to refer to other non-Blacks.
8. Anyone engaged in inappropriate, negative behavior; in this sense, Blacks may even apply the term to White folk. According to African Ame ~ H. Samy Alim

Listening to a woman is almost as bad as losing to one. There are only three things that women are better at than men: cleaning, cooking, and having sex. ~ Charles Barkley

Only poor people go to jail. ~ Charles Barkley

I pu my finger to her lips. "You have to hush a minute so that I can tell you something."
"What?" she says, bites my finger.
I look at her. "I love you."
She gets quiet, the kind of quiet that sinks into her, softens her. "Well that works out," she finally says, her voice deeper and breathless, her eyes moist, "because I love you too." She turns, leans against my arm, and settles into me. ~ Brad Barkley

Jerry Krause must have pictures of his boss's wife having sex with a monkey. ~ Charles Barkley

Yet Barkley drew back. Perhaps he, like Harry Truman, knew that the quiet power of incumbency easily overcomes the noise of crowds and bands. ~ David Pietrusza

Family members provided a variety of support--physical, economic, emotional, and psychological... Parents opened bank accounts for their children, even those who were adult, away from home, married, and employed. And children who left Richmond to search for work elsewhere provided for the money in their savings accounts to be used by other relatives, if needed, during their absence. In all these ways African American women and men testified to the notion of family members as having a mutual and continuing responsibility to help each other and to prepare for hard times. ~ Elsa Barkley Brown

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. ~ Charles Barkley

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots. - On North Carolina missing 22 of its last 23 shots in losing to Georgetown in the NCAA tournament. ~ Charles Barkley

Poor 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. ~ Charles Barkley

I played against him (Wilkins) in college. Getting nominated with him, that's pretty cool. ~ Charles Barkley

Jameson, the teacher who ran drama club, would call her name any minute to audition for the lead role! That ~ Callie Barkley

You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up. ~ Brad Barkley

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game. ~ Charles Barkley

I read that heavy drinking is bad for your health. I decided I better stop reading. ~ Charles Barkley

You couldn't do it with him because Rhodes wasn't the one ... Furious Barkley is. Furi ~ A.E. Via

You can tell all of us are morphing into full-blown adults, wingtip adults, because all the time now the Big Question is, What are you going to do? After the summer, about your scholarship, about choosing a college, after graduation, with the rest of your life. When you are thirteen, the question is, Smooth or crunchy? That's it. Later, at the onset of full-blown adulthood, the Big Question changes a little bit - instead of, What are you going to do? it turns into, What do you do? I hear it all the time when my parents have parties, all the men standing around. After they talk sports, they always ask, What do you do? It's just part of the code that they mean "for a living" because no one ever answers it by saying, I go for walks and listen to music full-blast and don't care about my hearing thirty years from now, and I drink milk out of the carton, and I cough when someone lights up a cigarette, and I dig rainy days because they make me sad in a way I like, and I read books until I fall asleep holding them, and I put on sock-shoe, sock-shoe instead of sock-sock, shoe-shoe because I think it's better luck. Never that. People are always in something. I'm in advertising. I'm in real estate. I'm in sales and marketing. ~ Brad Barkley

As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities. ~ Charles Barkley

I 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. ~ Charles Barkley

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. ~ Charles Barkley

If you are an ugly woman, you have no chance of getting a TV job. ~ Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. ~ Charles Barkley

I don't believe athletes should be role models ... We're a one-shot deal, one in a million, so we should be the least likely role models ... I think one of the problems in society today is that we don't stress education enough, because we glorify athletes, actors and actresses. ~ Charles Barkley

I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore... ~ Yesenia Barkley

It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play. ~ Charles Barkley