Words matter. These are the best Roland Martin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you want to age a lot of years, become president.
I’m a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.
I type my sermon notes into my BlackBerry, then I upload my sermon notes to my blog, my Facebook page and some of the information to my Twitter account. That’s 100,000 people I’m sharing the Gospel with by the virtue of typing it into my BlackBerry as opposed to writing it down. That is being efficient with my time.
Radio has always been a niche business. Cable television has always been a niche business. Magazines have always been a niche business.
Your life is not defined by the one place where you work.
We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
Even though we are a nation that’s becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.
Everybody can adore you because you’re on television, but at the end of the day, when you’re no longer on TV, who’s still there? It’s family.
There are some people that look at faith as a part of their life, and there are those like me that look at faith as the essence of their life. I look at all things through my faith.
I think it’s important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.
I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can’t just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.
When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, ‘Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.’
The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.
I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.
We need people who truly live their faith, represent their faith, speaking to the issues of faith through a faith prism as opposed to just having folks talking about faith when there is a crisis.
When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you’re doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.
I read several books at one time.
I can’t talk about the education of black children if I ignored two of my nieces who were a couple of grade levels behind. I believe that charity begins at home, and I take seriously the role of a godfather to fill the gap when the parents aren’t doing their job.
My life has never been defined as Roland Martin, CNN; Roland Martin, TVOne; or Roland Martin, ‘Tom Joyner Morning Show.’ I’m appreciative of all of those platforms, but I’ve done all different things. I’m still Roland Martin.
