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Melissa Harris-Perry Quotes: I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.
         

I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.


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So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.



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Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.



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Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.



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With Donald Trump, you know, what I would tell you is that he's got shelf life like I never would have guessed.



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You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.



Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.

Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's we start making better investments.



Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.

Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception.



I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.

I had a friend say to me the other day, I hate when I see Jonathan Metzl on your show because I know it's bad news. I know that there has been a shooting.



Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.



From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That's more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.





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It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

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A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.



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