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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.

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Julianne Malveaux
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 22
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Julianne Marie Malveaux
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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.
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Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.
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If the Muslim community in Michigan comes out strongly, I think they will make a difference.
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While the banks got big bailouts, a sizeable chunk of African-American wealth evaporated because so many people lost homes.
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Trayvon Martin could have been any of our sons, so I was not especially moved by that remark of President [Barack] Obama's.
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If people don't know about you, that's not on them, it's on you.
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African-Americans have rarely been the beneficiaries of Presidential rhetorical excess.
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History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
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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.
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Tavis Smiley lost lots of corporate support after he was critical of President [Barack] Obama.
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Bernie Sanders has the momentum, and I think that that's something that we can't ignore.
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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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Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.
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We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.
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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.
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Ronald Reagan's attack on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people of color.
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[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.
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People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.
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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.
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I am not afraid of anything. I am voting for Hillary Clinton because I am excited and enthusiastic.
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