Julianne Malveaux Quotes

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• History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Stories, Pens, Ifs

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• If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Black child poverty is higher. As I write in the epilogue, "Yes we can. No he didn't. President [Barack] Obama didn't push black people backward, but he missed the opportunity to move us forward."

  Julianne Malveaux

  Children, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.

  Julianne Malveaux

  White, Racism, Littles

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• When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Space, People, Urban

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• Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Country, Not Sure, European Countries

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

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• George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Evil, Arrogant, Politics

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• I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Heart, Men, Eggs

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• One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Challenges, Foreign Policy

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

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• The voter problems and voter suppression, in some ways they're the same thing, but in some ways they're not, because the suppression is evil.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Evil, Voters, Way

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• 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

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• While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Numbers, Issues, People

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

  Julianne Malveaux

  People, Leaving, Body

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• Of course, Mr. Hannity was outraged that any American would not cross her hand over her heart and repeat the hypocritical words, one nation. Whenever we come up on the Fourth of You Lie, I think of Frederick Douglas and his masterful oration, The meaning of the Fourth of July to the Negro. Pledge the flag? I think not!

  Julianne Malveaux

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• 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

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• Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Office, Priorities, President

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Duncan, Barack

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• 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

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• If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Thinking, Differences, Community

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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