"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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Source : Source: www.theskanner.com

Julianne Malveaux

#Children Quotes #Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes

“History is what the evidence compels us to believe.”
“It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.”
“I just love playing guitar, so that's what I'm going to do.”
“You could say I'm a bit of a nomad.”

Source : "10 Questions: Poppy Delevingne" by Yale Breslin, www.elle.com. October 9, 2012.
“You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.”
“My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.”
“A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
“We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.”

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