Top 44 Tamron Hall Quotes

I’m definitely a foodie.

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

I love Chicago. I wouldn’t be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn’t have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I’d not lived in Chicago.

I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.

The two things that I require for anyone who’s around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

Looking back, I’ve always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience through their jobs, their lives, and their children. It’s always been a treat to hear about others.

I take it seriously that it’s a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It’s not something I take lightly.

I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

I had braces for six years! Kids would call me ‘big teeth’ or ‘rabbit teeth.’

It’s a tough town, it’s a loving town, it’s a supportive town, and that’s why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.

I feel it’s tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don’t see them.

I love Jidenna and Leon Bridges.

As a kid from Texas, it always amazes me when city kids don’t know how to ride a bike.

I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.

The biggest compliment I get is when someone tells me, ‘You’re so real.’ Even if my journey isn’t exactly like theirs.

The troops aren’t red and blue. They’re not black and white. They’re not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that’s a fact.

When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I’d cover stories about other people, and we’re always taught never to make the story about yourself.

I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It’s one of the strangest but most entertaining things I’ve read about myself online.

I’m about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I’m asking questions that they want the answers to.

Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, ‘How hard is it as a black woman,’ or, ‘How hard is it as a woman,’ I turn you around. Because I cannot – we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.

Trust me: I do hit the snooze button about 4 times.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan’s birthday party.

We’re not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?

So I have people who tweet and ask me, ‘You can’t be this happy all the time. You can’t be this cheerful.’ Well, yes I am. From where I’ve come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I’m never going to look at challenges.

I am a gummy bear fanatic.

You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

I love morning television because it’s the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that’s a gift from God.

I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn’t happen. I love him and his wife; they’re so sweet. I was very nervous.

I root for anyone who’s got kids and if they want to make it work.

I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.

When I came to Philadelphia in the late ’80s, it was going through a very difficult time.

I love my job and my relationship with the viewers who watch my shows.

I date, don’t get me wrong. I’m not up here filing my fingernails on a Friday night. I want to find someone to share my life with.

What I’ve learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.

We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.

My ability to not be afraid to ask tough questions or to confront, that matters.

Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you’ll ever meet. He’s raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he’s a straight shooter. He’s a New Yorker, as they say.

I didn’t want to be the aunt where you come over and can’t sit on the sofa.

It used to upset me – now it makes me sad – to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.

We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it’s done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.

I’ve not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it’s adoption or I’m able to conceive, I just hope that I’m able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.