Latest Julianne Malveaux Quotes from Interviews

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• When Ronald Reagan became president, students could no longer get food stamps.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Students, Food Stamps

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Color, People, Assistance

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Recovery, People, Interesting

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Voting, Can Do, You Can Do It

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Personality, Levels

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Vote, Clinton

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Momentum

  Source: www.democracynow.org

• Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Regret, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Trying, Remember, Walking

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Spiritual, Believe, Higher Power

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Spiritual, Catholic, Unity

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• [My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Spiritual, Religious, Childhood

• I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Destiny, Light, Essence

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I am addicted to the printed word, and my idea of a good time is a good book.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Book, Ideas, Printed Word

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Leader, African American, Records

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• As I write in the book, I do not regret either of my votes for President [Barack] Obama, nor my support of him when he ran for the Senate before that. I get excited as I ever did when I see that black man on Air Force One. But I won't settle for symbolism, and our President's record should be open for analysis.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Regret, Book, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Support, President, Smiley

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Chicago, Roles

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Talking, Records, Dozen

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I serve on the Institute of the Black World's National Commission on African-American Reparations, and we have asked the President [Barack Obama] to, by executive order, establish a commission to study reparations. He can do this without Congressional approval. While I am not optimistic, I do hope that President Obama considers this in these waning months of his Presidency.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Optimistic, Order, African American

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. I

  Julianne Malveaux

  Race, President, Matter

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• The President [Barack Obama] became quite emotional about transgender student rights, threatening to pull Department of Education funds from school districts that do not comply with federal regulations. Black children are suspended from school three times more than white children are, and there is no evidence that black children are three times as unruly.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, School, Emotional

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Presidential, African American, Excess

  Source: www.theskanner.com

• I especially appreciated hearing the President [Barack Obama] affirm that "black lives matter" and that it means that some citizens are feeling more pain, and experiencing more negative effects than others, and he offered up the stats. He also indicated that black lives matter does not negate the fact that blue lives matter. He ably walked the tightrope, here, between affirming both black life and police life.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Pain, Mean, Blue

  Source: www.theskanner.com