Melissa Harris-Perry Quotes - Page 2

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• You can`t use hair spray, because hair spray is going to affect the ozone. I`m trying to figure out - okay, I`m in my room in New York City and I want to put a little spray, so that I can - all right? Right?

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  New York, Ozone, Hair

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Sports, Eye, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think the most critical needs of the African-American communities aren't being addressed primarily because of decisions being made by Republican Congressional leaders.

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  Thinking, Decision, Leader

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

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  War, Gun, Iraq

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

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  White, Numbers, Desire

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I just keep thinking of how many times I`ve heard Ferguson effect. And I`ve heard it because of protests, officers are afraid to do their job because of - because of a YouTube effect.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Ferguson

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.

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  Country, Athlete, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?

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  Years, Cities, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mean, People, Ask Me

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote.

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  Black, Needs, Vote

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I don't think that a white woman is in denial when she dyes her hair blonde. And I actually think we are the most varied in terms of the choices we make about our hair. Some of it may be political or psychological, but an awful lot of it is just aesthetic, how we like to view ourselves when we look in the mirror.

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  Thinking, Views, White

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Think of how hard it would be to create a gender-based movement across racial lines as long as one group believes that it has to be strong while seeing the other group as passive and weak. We could also go into the stereotypes of the saucy, mercurial Latina and the docile, easily-dominated Asian woman.

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  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

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  Community, Housing

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

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  School, White, Interesting

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

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  Mom, Dad, Life Is

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

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  Two, White, Childhood

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family.

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  Thinking, America, Ideas

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I am a supporter of much of the Arab Spring, as a matter of indigenous self-determination. So, I see the United States' role in Libya as an appropriately restrained one in providing some international support for the work of those trying to bring democratic change against a regime that has undoubtedly been dictatorial, particularly in the past twenty years.

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  Determination, Spring, Past

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The leading non-establishment Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, is just sailing past [establishment Republican candidates] in the polls. He is still surging. He is basically killing them all.

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  Past, Sailing, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University`s board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities have rescinded honorary degrees they gave him.

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  College, Names, Two

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The debate was a chance for senator [Bernie] Sanders to have a game-changing moment to recapture the news cycle and build momentum going into 2016 and he took his best shot at having a moment.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Games, Momentum, News

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

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  Data, Political, Glitches

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• While the establishment Republican candidates are busy doing this, attacking each other, and doing everything they can to bring each other down, they seem to be missing the bull`s-eye. They`re missing the targets.

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  Eye, Missing, Target

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A recent analysis of election coverage by the Tindall report which tracks network nicely news programs found that Bernie Sanders received just ten minutes out of 857 minutes of campaign coverage in 2015. Compare that to 234 minutes for Donald Trump, and 113 for Hillary Clinton.

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  Track, Analysis, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Party, Dark, Obamacare

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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