Julianne Malveaux
History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.Collection: Stories
If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.Collection: People
In trying times, I like to remember that you have to keep walking because you can't see what is around the corner.Collection: Trying
Voting is not the most you can do; it's really the least you can do.Collection: Voting
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.Collection: Recovery
I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.Collection: Life Lesson
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."Collection: Children
There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there.Collection: White
When public policy is directed toward urban spaces, it is directed toward people who sit at the margins.Collection: Space
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Regret
George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Heart
One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.Collection: Thinking
I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Evil
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.Collection: Regret
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.Collection: Numbers
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.Collection: People
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!Collection: Lying
If past behavior is any indication, Donald Trump's behavior would not be acceptable.Collection: Past
Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.Collection: Thinking
Indeed, as soon as he took office, Senator Mitch McConnell announced that his top priority was to deny President [Barack] Obama a second term.Collection: Office
If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.Collection: Jobs
The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.Collection: President
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.Collection: Destiny
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.Collection: Pain
[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill.Collection: Might
[Barack Obama] intended, I think, to say that he took Trayvon's [ Martin] death somewhat personally.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Children
African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.Collection: Presidential
He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.Collection: Police
This was in 2004, and it told me that President [Barack] Obama intended to be very careful and noncontroversial in addressing race matters. ICollection: Race
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.Collection: Optimistic
I've talked to dozens of Chicagoans who will only go off the record in talking about the manufactured mythology.Collection: Talking
Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.Collection: Color
Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.Collection: Support
Bernie Sanders just seems to not have the personality to engage with people at the grassroots level.Collection: People
You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.Collection: People
Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.Collection: Spiritual
The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.Collection: President
Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.Collection: Son
The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.Collection: President
I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.Collection: Russia
We have a very large military community - veterans and others - who basically do believe in the militarism.Collection: Military
I think the takeaway from not holding President Obama accountable is, no matter how enthusiastic you are about Hillary Clinton, no matter how enthusiastic you are, the first thing that needs to happen is that people need to start planning how to hold her accountable.Collection: Thinking
We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.Collection: President
Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.Collection: Believe
African-American people adore President Obama.Collection: People
North Carolina is a fascinating state, because you've got these urban areas. You've got the Piedmont Triangle - Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point.Collection: North Carolina