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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

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
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San Francisco County
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Julianne Marie Malveaux
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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.
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Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.
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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.
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