Maxine Quotes

I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

I am not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.

A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own

Others say that that's not good for the country [to resist Donald's Trump ] and that they should work with this new administration on policies.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.

If [Donald Trump] wants to do good things, let's see it. Let him do it. I can't stop him from doing good things.

Some are arguing that the Democrats should resist at every turn [to Donald's Trump administration], and some Democrats are saying that's the strategy that Democrats should now employ.

In a time of destruction, create something.

I just think the American people had better understand what's going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what [Russians] are!

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

I am forever on the way

If Hillary Clinton had won the White House, I believe that given what Comey did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

My take is this. The Republicans control the Senate. They have the majority of the House, and they have the White House. They can do whatever they want to do, really.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Love, we are a small pond.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

I do not necessarily support the president's decision.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Don't forget during the primary debates when Trump pointed at Carly Fiorina and said, "Look at that face, who would vote for her?" That tells you everything about him and what he cares about women.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

I can't stop [Donald Trump] from doing what he wants to do.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

Everything pays for growing tame.

It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

How unlike a dead fish a live fish is.